Hawking's own copy of the Nuffield Workshop of 1982

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Lot 45 | Hawking's own copy of the Nuffield Workshop of 1982
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£ 500 – 800
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), G.W. Gibbons (b. 1946) and S.T.C. Siklos (1950-2019), editors. The Very Early Universe. Proceedings of the Nuffield Workshop, Cambridge 21 June to 9 July, 1982. Cambridge: University Press, 1983.

Hawking's own copy of the Nuffield Workshop of 1982. The papers are by 29 different authors (one by Hawking), discussing the nature of the beginning of the universe, with a particular emphasis on the concept of an inflationary universe.

Octavo (228 x 150mm). Publisher's black cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Stephen Hawking (ownership inscription in another hand on front free endpaper) – Royal Institution (manuscript note from the RI Librarian loosely inserted thanking Hawking for the loan of the book).

[Sold with:] F.G. Friedlander. The Wave Equation on a Curved Space-time. Cambridge: University Press, 1975. Octavo, original cloth and dustjacket. Provenance: authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper, to: – Stephen Hawking. [And:] S.K. Bose. An Introduction to General Relativity. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Limited, 1980. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers (faint top corner crease to rear wrapper, extending into text block).
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