The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

Very smart publisher’s navy blue cloth with silver lettering; a fine book in a near fine jacket; a couple of tiny closed tears to the edges. The jacket has been clipped top and bottom of the front flap - apparently as issued but we have not had a first edition before to make the comparison.

From the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes.

This publication precedes by more than a decade Stephen Hawking’s solo publication of his Brief History which became one of the most unexpected bestsellers in publishing history and made a successful physicist into a global celebrity. Hawking trained as a theoretical physicist, collaborated with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems and worked on black hole radiation. An early collaborator was the co-author of this book, the south African cosmologist George F R Ellis