THE YOUNG TRAVELLER IN SPACE. London: Phoenix House Ltd, [1954]. Large octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-72, color frontispiece from a drawing by R. A. Smith, 29 illustrations from photographs on plate paper, and 6 diagrams in the text, original full-color pictorial boards. First edition. Clarke's third book on rocketry and space travel, this one for young readers. Published later the same year in the U.S. with some differences in content as GOING INTO SPACE. Ciancone 48. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 496. A very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (full-color illustration by Edmund Louis Blandford) with light edge wear and clipped price. A superior copy of a book seldom found in nice condition. (#135282).
Price: $550.00
"First published 1954" on copyright page.