Introduction by Michael L. Ciancone
(Adapted from Ciancone's "Introduction" to Foreword to Spaceflight: An Illustrated Bibliography of pre-1958 Books on Rocketry & Space Travel [Apogee, 2018].)
Three men are widely recognized as the fathers of rocketry for spaceflight—Konstantin Tsiolkovskii (Russia), Hermann Oberth (Germany), and Robert Goddard (United States). Tsiolkovskii developed the theory underpinning human spaceflight and wrote small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion of humans into the cosmos). The “holy grail” of this genre is an article he wrote in the May 1903 issue of “Nauchnoe Obozrenie” [Scientific Review] on “Exploration of Space by Means of Reactive Devices” in which he established the “rocket equation” and addressed various aspects of future spaceflight. Tsiolkovskii was influential as a mentor and inspiration to experimenters and spaceflight advocates in the Soviet Union. Oberth was also an early theoretician who was well-known to early rocket pioneers in Europe and beyond. He tried a bit of experimentation, but he was a better writer than scientist or engineer. Oberth wrote one of the most influential books on spaceflight—Die Rakete zu den Planetenrӓumen (Oldenbourg, 1923)—which inspired a generation of “rocketeers” around the world. Goddard, on the other hand, was an experimenter who spent his life building and testing rockets. He published his seminal monograph, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, in 1919 through the Smithsonian Institution and launched the first liquid-fuel rocket in the world on 16 March 1926.
What began as a solitary endeavor grew, as people with similar interests formed small groups to share news and plan for the future. Writers, particularly during the formative years of the 1920s and 1930s, were the publicists who used their medium to spread the “gospel” of spaceflight and to explain what it offered to the future of mankind. These visionaries were able to take the dreams of spaceflight and weave them into stories for public consumption. The first book of non-fiction in English on the use of rockets for human spaceflight, The Conquest of Space (Penguin Press, 1931), was written by David Lasser, a founder and the first president of the American Interplanetary Society (later re-named the American Rocket Society, which exists today as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). The first British books of this genre appeared shortly thereafter—Stratosphere and Rocket Flight (Astronautics) (Pitman, 1935) by C.G. Philp and Rockets Through Space—The Dawn of Interplanetary Travel (Allen and Unwin, 1936) by P.E. Cleator. Although many of these early rocketeers tended to be writers, they were soon augmented by technical members, such as engineers, who were interested in the practical application of rocketry to human spaceflight. Together, these groups of dreamers and doers provided a fertile breeding ground that merely awaited a catalyst.
Certainly, it has to be said that it was extremely important to the development of rockets when the military became interested. This took rockets from the realm of the amateurs and into the arena of military applications. However, there is also a price to pay for relying on military support for a particular technology, whether it is atomic energy or rocketry. Technology is a sword with two edges that cuts in both directions. Rockets that fulfill dreams of launching humans into space are also potential weapons of war. This is a dilemma with which rocketeers have struggled. But it is a legacy that we must acknowledge and understand.
The development of the A-4 (V-2) rocket by Germany during World War II was a catalyst for rocket development in the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II. One of the most interesting contemporary books on the V-2, Ballistics of the Future by Kooy and Uytenbogaart(Stam, 1946), provides detailed schematics of the V-2 rocket and the location of launch sites in The Netherlands.
Early rocket experimenters were pleased to see their rockets launch into the sky without exploding. Then they were eager to send their rockets higher and farther. The destination was unimportant, other than “up.” Later, it became important to control the flight of the rocket with an intended destination. To advocates of human spaceflight, this destination took the form of placing a spacecraft into orbit around the Earth, or sending it to the Moon or Mars. Perhaps the most influential book on this theme was The Mars Project (University of Illinois Press, 1953) by Wernher von Braun, who was an early member of the German Society for Space Travel and architect of the V-2 rocket program in World War 2, and later a prominent figure in the US space program.
Cold War tension between the United States and the USSR led to the space race—space was the new field of competition in a battle of ideologies. The initial venue for this competition was the International Geophysical Year (IGY) during which nations of the world were encouraged to join together to explore and better understand the Earth. At this same time, the United States and the Soviet Union were both eager to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). IGY offered a convenient opportunity to sustain rocket development in support of the launch of the first artificial satellite into orbit around the Earth, ostensibly for peaceful purposes.
Like a bicycle race, the space race was a race of stages. The Soviet Union won the first “stage” with the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957. And it won other stages as well, representing major milestones, such as the first human in space (with the launch of Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961). But on 20 July 1969, the United States became the first nation (and thus far, the only nation) to land humans on the Moon.
These achievements generated a lot of public interest, which resulted in many publications about those achievements. Before the launch of Sputnik, there had only been a few hundred books published of speculative nonfiction on human spaceflight since the early 1900s. Most of these appeared in English and German, but there were also books published in Russian, Italian, French, and Spanish. After the launch of Sputnik, the number of books about spaceflight increased significantly as people around the world sought information on efforts to explore this ultimate frontier.
An early chroniclers of the history, current status and future of human space flight was Will Ley, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1935. He is perhaps best known for Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel, which first appeared as Rockets—The Future of Flight Beyond the Stratosphere (Viking, 1944), and went through many editions and printings under different titles through the 1960s.
The history of spaceflight is still being written as mankind continues its journey, back to the Moon and on to Mars.
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N.p: Journal of the Astronomical Sciences, 1936. Folio, single sheet folded to make four pages. (#163929)
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[New York]: American Rocket Society, n.d. [circa mid-1930s]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] (not paginated), one illustration (launching of Goddard's Experimental Rocket No. 2), self wrappers, stapled. (#163926)
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Glendale, California: Glendale Rocket Society, July 1945 (number 10). Octavo, single issue, letterpress, self wrappers, stapled as issued. (#163931)
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Glendale, California: Glendale Rocket Society, September 1944 (number 9). Octavo, single issue, mimeographed, self wrappers, stapled as issued. (#163930)
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Amsterdam, London, New York, Princeton: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1960. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-viii [ix] x [xi-xii] xiii-xxxi [xxxii] [1] 2-829 [830-832: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], 375 illustrations and figures and 71 tables, original blue-gray cloth stamped in black and gold. First edition in English. (#136168)
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München: Verlag Paul Müller, 1953. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-249 [250-253] [254-256: ads], 24 plates, line drawings and diagrams in the text, original beige cloth stamped in black. First edition. (#135343)
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Manchester: Manchester Interplanetary Society, June 1938 (number 3). Folio, single sheet, mimeographed on one side only. (#163937)
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Deutsche Radar-Verlagsgesellschaft m b H, 1956. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-9 [10] 11-192, 112 illustrations, diagrams and figures, some on plate paper, but mostly in the text, original gray cloth stamped in gold. First edition in German. (#135566)
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London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1952. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-235 [236: blank], 56 figures, some of which are photographic on plate paper, 18 tables, original decorated blue cloth stamped in silver. First edition. (#160311)
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London: Temple Press Limited, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#161899)
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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. (#135282)
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1953]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-159 [160: publisher's imprint], 15 plates, 26 figures and 6 cartoons in the text, original dark blue boards stamped in silver. First edition. (#160309)
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9 [10] 11-13 [14] 15-246 [247-248: blank], 22 plates, 21 figures in the text, publisher's pictorial gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red. First edition. (#160308)
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Atlanta, Georgia: Southeastern Research Institute, Inc., 1947. Large octavo, pp. [1-6] I-1-I-17 [I-18: blank] II-1-II-18 III-1-III-19 [III-20: blank] IV-1-IV-17 [IV-18] V-1-V-18 VI-1-VI-14 VII-1-VII-10 VIII-1-VIII-13 [VIII-14] A-1-A6, errata sheet laid in, diagrams in the text, offset from typewritten copy, original pictorial blue wrappers, stapled. First edition. (#135515)
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Washington, D. C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1975. Large octavo, pp. [i-vii] vii-xi [xii] 1-313 [314-316: blank], illustrations, endpaper charts, pictorial cloth. First edition. (#162934)
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Breslau: Verein für Raumschiffahrt, 1. Jahrgang 1927. Octavo, 6 issues plus the supplement; paged [i] ii-iv [1] 2-28; [81] 82-172, illustrations, pictorial self wrappers, bound together in a plain green paper wrapper titled in ink on front cover. (#135570)
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Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1950. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-2] 3-18 [19-21: ads] [22: imprint], original orange printed wrappers. First edition. (#135452)
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Paris: Au Bureau du Journal de Physique, Mars 1913. Octavo, single issue, original blue wrappers printed in black, untrimmed. (#135078)
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Paris: Imprimerie A. Lahure [and Imprimerie Chaix], 1930-1935. Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-6] [1] 2 [3] 4 [5-6] 6a-6b: blank/errata] [7] 8 [9] 10-248 [249-250: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks]; [1-3] 4-93 [94: blank] [95-102] [103-104: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], mimeographed folded errata leaf bound into COMPLÉMENT after title leaf, 9 large folded plates in the main volume, plus 1 large folded plate in the COMPLÉMENT, original orange wrappers printed in black. First edition, second ("thin paper") issue. (#142811)
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Paris: Au Siege de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1928. Large octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-96, tables in the text, original reddish-brown wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. (#135444)
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Paris: Au Siege de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1928. Large octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-96, tables in the text, original reddish-brown wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. (#142812)
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[Glen Ellyn, Illinois: Glen News Printing Co., 1945]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-31 [32], frontispiece (photographic portrait of Farnsworth), tan wrappers printed in black, stapled. Second edition. (#163920)
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[Glen Ellyn, Illinois: Glen News Printing Co., 1945]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-31 [32], frontispiece (photographic portrait of Farnsworth), tan wrappers printed in black, stapled. Second edition. (#163922)
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Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verlag, [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-106 [107-108] [109-111: ads] [112: publisher's device], eight inserted plates with illustrations on rectos and versos, other illustrations and diagrams in the text by Max Valier, cloth-backed pictorial boards (fine illustration by Chomton on front panel). First edition. (#146523)
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1955]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-185 [186: blank], 20 illustrations from photographs on plate paper, original dark blue boards stamped in gold. First edition in English. (#135128)
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Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag, [1955]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-265 [266: blank] 267-272: ads, illustrations, original decorated orange cloth stamped in black. First edition. (#135297)
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Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag, [1955]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-328, inserted plates with illustrations from photographs, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white. First edition, first printing. (#136299)
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1956]. Large octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-8 [9-10] 11-159 [160], 19 full page and double page illustrations by Virgil Finlay plus a portfolio of early space art, pictorial cloth. First edition, first printing. (#160834)
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City of Washington: Published by The Smithsonian Institution, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 1-10, eleven pages of illustrations on six inserted plates, original tan wrappers printed in black, sewn, untrimmed. First edition. (#160970)
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City of Washington: Published by The Smithsonian Institution, 1919 [i.e. 1920]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-69 [70: blank], ten pages of illustrations on five inserted plates, original gray wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. (#160969)
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Paris: Éditions Spes, 1932. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-5] 6-7 [8-9] 10-188 [189-190: blank], twenty illustrations and diagrams drawn by the author in the text, publisher's gray wrappers printed in dark blue, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#160317)
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Paris: Editions Fleuve Noir, [1957]. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10 [11-13] 14-254 [255: colophon] [256: blank], 64 photographs and drawings on plate paper, other illustrations in the text, original white wrappers printed in black, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#135544)
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München und Berlin: Druck und Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iii] iv [v-vi] 1-88 [note: first leaf is a blank], 28 figures in the text, original printed light brown wrappers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. (#135134)
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München und Berlin: Druck und Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iii] iv [v-vi] 1-88 [note: first leaf is a blank], 28 figures in the text, original pictorial white wrappers printed in dark blue. First edition. (#135569)
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London: Ernest Benn Limited, [1956]. Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-14 [15-16] 17-229 [230: printer's imprint] [231-232: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], 121 figures, including illustrations from photographs on plate paper, 22 tables, original blue-gray cloth stamped in gold. First edition. (#135464)
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London: British Interplanetary Society, February 1936 (volume 3, number 1). Octavo, single issue, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. (#163941)
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New York: Interplanetary Exploration Society, December 1960 (volume 1, number 1). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, stapled. (#160233)
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New York: Interplanetary Exploration Society, July 1961 (volume 1, number 2). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, stapled. (#160234)
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Haarlem, Holland: The Technical Publishing Company H. Stam, [1946]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-472, 20 illustrations and 172 figures, several of the latter on eight folded plates inserted at rear, three folded maps at rear, original black cloth stamped in red and gold. First edition. (#135724)
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Bremen: Anschrift des Verfassers: Obering. Herm. Langkrär, Sept. 1973. Octavo, 1-28 leaves (printed on rectos only), pagination includes two folded tables, original gray pictorial wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#135435)
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New York: Penguin Press, 1931. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-271 [272-274: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], four inserted plates, other illustrations in text, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#135138)
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Leipzig: Verlag von Hachmeister & Thal, 1928. Large octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v-vii] viii [1] 2-344, two inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, original pictorial tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black (illustration on front cover by Gundermann), yellow ribbon marker. First edition, first printing. (#151027)
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Paris: L'Aérophile, Octobre 1936. Folio, pp. [1-8] (not paginated), 2 illustrations from photographs, 5 figures, 2 tables self wrappers, stapled. First edition. (#139573)
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Leipzig: Verlag Hachmeister & Thal, 1926. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-68 + [8]-page undated publisher's catalogue at rear, nineteen illustrations in the text by Thea Blüthner, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#136323)
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Leipzig: Verlag Hachmeister & Thal, [1926]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-68 + [12]-page undated publisher's catalogue at rear, nineteen illustrations in the text by Thea Blüthner, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#160318)
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Leipzig: Verlag Hachmeister & Thal, [1929]. Small octavo, pp. [1-3] 4 [5-9] 10-83 [84-96: ads], 30 illustrations in the text, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. Second edition, enlarged. (#160971)
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Leipzig: Verlag Hachmeister & Thal, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4 [5] 6-55 [56: ads] + [8]-page undated publisher's catalogue at rear, sixteen illustrations in the text, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#160319)
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Leipzig und Berlin: Verlag Hachmeister & Thal, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-16, nine diagrams in the text, original printed yellow wrappers. First edition. (#160321)
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Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag. 1951. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-116, 65 illustrations, diagrams and figures in the text, original printed wrappers. First edition. (#135476)
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[Barcelona]: Aymá, [1957]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-225 [226-230] [231-232], illustrations, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#160251)
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Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-169 [170-176: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], five inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, publisher's pebbled black cloth stamped in gold. First edition. (#160313)
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Berlin: Raketenflugverlag, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-47 [48: blank], illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial white wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. (#151263)
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Berlin: Raketenflugverlag, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-47 [48: blank], illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial white wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. (#160323)
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Princeton, New Jersey: Scientific Publishing Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xvi] [1] 2-280 [281-283] [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], fifteen inserted plates including color frontispiece, diagrams in text, original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#146493)
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Princeton, New Jersey: Scientific Publishing Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xvi] [1] 2-280 [281-283] [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], fifteen inserted plates including color frontispiece, diagrams in text, original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. (#158533)
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München und Berlin: Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-7] 8 [9] 10-92, three folded plates (one counted as figure 53), other figures in the text, original decorated gray wrappers printed in black, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#160972)
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Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag, [1957]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-259 [260: blank] [261-264: ads], illustrations, original black cloth stamped in silver. Second edition. (#135152)
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München und Berlin: Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1929. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-viii [ix] x-xi [xii] 1-431 [432: ad], four inserted folded plans, 159 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, top edge stained green. Third (enlarged) edition. (#135417)
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Moscow: Molodaya Gwardia, 1975. Large octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-301 [302-303] [304: colophon], illustrations in color and black and white, cloth. First edition. (#162935)
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1945]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-244, 23 illustrations on 16 plates, 19 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original red cloth stamped in blue and gold,fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. (#160310)
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N.p: Scientific American, 1934. Folio, single sheet folded to make four pages. (#163928)
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Leningrad, Moscow: Onti -- Glavnaia redkatsiia nauchno-populiarnoii iunosheskoi literatury [Scientific Popularization and Youth Books], 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-269 [270-271] [272: colophon], 72 illustrations, diagrams and figures in the text, publisher's quarter cloth and pictorial boards, gray endpapers. Tenth edition. (#160316)
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Brooklyn, N. Y. F. W. Kessler, 1935. Small broadside, printed on one side only. (#163923)
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Albion, Pa. American Air Mail Society, October 1935 (volume 7, number 1). Octavo, single issue, pictorial gray wrappers printed in orange and black, stapled. (#163925)
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New York: Published by Pen-Ink Pub. Co., Fall 1945 (volume 101). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. stapled. (#163936)
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Glen Ellyn, Illinois: The United States Rocket Society, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, illustrations, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. (#163921)
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Wien: Verlag Zeitschrift "Flug," H. Pittner, 1934. Large octavo, pp. [1] 2-22 [23: ads] [24: blank], 25 illustrations, diagrams and charts in the text, original gray wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. (#135428)
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München und Berlin: Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii-ix [x] 1-222 [223-224: ads], 92 diagrams in the text, original gray cloth stamped in black, top edge stained black. First edition. (#135260)
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München und Berlin: Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii-ix [x] 1-222 [223-224: ads], 92 diagrams in the text, original gray cloth stamped in black, top edge stained black. First edition. (#135742)
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Berlin: Verlag C. J. E. Volckmann Nachf. G.m.b.H., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-134 [135-136: ads], 77 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#135437)
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Berlin: Verlag C. J. E. Volckmann Nachf. G.m.b.H., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-134 [135-136: ads], 77 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#135439)
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Berlin: Verlag C. J. E. Volckmann Nachf. G.m.b.H., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-134 [135-136: ads], 77 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black. First edition. (#136459)
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Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#9327)
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Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#153740)
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Zurich: E. A. Hofmann Verlag, [1945]. Small octavo, pp. [1] 2 [3-4] 5-72, numerous illustrations and diagrams, original gray boards with blue-gray cloth shelf back, printed in black. First edition. (#135722)
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Zurich: Schweizer Druck und Verlagshaus AG., [1952]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-523 [524: blank], nine plans, several in color, one folded, inserted at rear, 206 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original blue cloth stamped in black. First edition. (#135441)
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Dorfen a. I. Barbara-Verlag Hugo Meiler, 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-31 [32: blank], 12 illustrations, original pictorial orange printed wrappers. First edition. (#135301)
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New York: The Ronald Press Company, [1951]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-ix [x] xi-xiii [xiv] [1-2] 3-207 208: blank], 63 illustrations and figures in the text, endpaper charts, publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gold. First edition. (#160315)
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München und Berlin: Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-viii 1-240, 61 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. (#160324)
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Frankfurt am Main: Umschau Verlag, Februar 1951-Dezember 1951 (numbers 1-6). Octavo, six issues, illustrations, bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gold with original pictorial paper covers retained. (#136300)
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Frankfurt am Main: Umschau Verlag, Januar 1952-April 1955 (volume 3, number 1-volume 6, number 2). Octavo, nine issues, illustrations, (#136301)
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Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, [1956]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-148 [149-150: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], 16 illustrations, most full or double page, by Anne Marie Jauss, original decorated orange cloth stamped in black. First U.S. edition. (#135270)
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New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1955]. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-xi [xii-xiv] 1-241 [242: blank], illustrations from photographs on plate paper, original decorated red cloth stamped in blue, decorated endpapers. First edition. (#135432)
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1945]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [1-2] 3-326, profusely illustrated with drawings by James MacDonald and with photographs, publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in black. First edition, first printing. (#160314)
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