Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays. London: Bantam Press, 1993. First Edition. Ownership inscription to title page. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Housed in collector’s solander box.

Signed by the Author with his thumb-print dated 24.07.2004

Stephen Hawking, a leading theoretical physicist, suffered from motor neuron disease for much of his adult life, and eventually lost almost all muscular control.

“In his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking literally transformed the way we think about physics, the universe, reality itself. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, he has opened our minds to today’s most important scientific ideas about the cosmos. Now Stephen Hawking returns to shed new light on the darkest regions of space and time . and to reveal an extraordinary array of possibilities for our understanding of the universe. These thirteen essays and one remarkable extended interview broadcast over the BBC on Christmas day 1992 range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific.”