BALABANOV, Ye

Title Solntse na zemlye Chto takoye atomnaya yenergiya i kak ona slyzhsit lyudyam. (Russian text: The Sun on Earth - atomic energy)
Illustrator Stolaninova
Publisher Moscow Moskva Molodaya Gvardiya
Date 1956
Book ID 35546
First Edition  

Description

A very good, clean, tight copy. 293pp.. Cloth-backed colour illustrated boards, illustrated in b/w throughout, entire text in Russian. Illustrator N Stolaninova. A very good, clean, tight copy. Interesting children's science primer published a year before the Sputnik 1 was launched. The cover shows an idea that was current in science fiction at the time of an atomic power station in space providing light to a large area of the Earth below.
Price: £12.00