Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time – First Edition 1988
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A first printing of Stephen Hawking’s bestselling work on cosmology and physics, which attempted to bring complex theories to a popular audience in non-technical terms. Then an academic at the University of Cambridge, Hawking wanted to write a popular book that tried to explain space and time, the origin and the fate of the universe, gravity, relativity, quantum mechanics and other fundamentals of modern physics, including the search for a unified theory. It went on to sell tens of million copies around the world and was translated into dozens of languages. Hawking passed away in 2018, having suffered from motor neurone disease for most of his adult life. He was portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the 2014 biopic The Theory of Everything. First printing, first edition, with the silver-grey true first state jacket and the £14.95 price. Published by Bantam Books in London in 1988, simultaneously with the US edition. In very good condition. Original unclipped jacket. Neat previous owner’s name.
