MOORE, Patrick, The Planet Venus (Faber & Faber, London), 1959 [second edition, revised and enlarged]

8vo; pp. 151

Very good condition: jacket chipped along the top edge; blue cloth binding very good; internally fine

An attractive copy of Moore’s early book on Venus, with two loose sheets laid in. The first is a letter to Moore from A.V. Butkevitch dated 5 March 1972, referring to the book and giving an anecdote about naked-eye perception of phases of Venus. The second is a short essay by Moore, apparently unpublished, on the same topic (after 1969). Moore explains an experiment he conducted on the phenomenon, concluding that it is indeed possible to see the phase without a telescope (the same conclusion is reached in the book itself).