History of Rocketry and Space Travel: Deluxe Limited Leather Binding by Brown & Bigelow (First Edition, First Printing, 1966)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966

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Very Good. Unmarked. End papers clean and unmarked. First Edition, First Printing; Deluxe Limited Edition bound in handcrafted Mission Leather by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. 1966, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. Brown grained leather boards, still nice color, w/ printed rocket photo panel to front board and spine; no jacket as issued. Light rubbing to corner tips and lower board edges; two small leather scuffs and minor fraying to printed panel edge along top board edge. Spine square, decorative red and white headbands; decorative sprinkled text block edges. Binding tight, solid & square. Clean, bright, lovely copy. Illustrated endpapers in green and tan. Original illustrations by Harry H-K Lange, photographs throughout, color and b&w; index. 244 pages. 8.75 x 11.25 in (4to). Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III trace the rocket from Chinese fire arrows to the Saturn launch vehicles of the Apollo program in History of Rocketry and Space Travel, published by Thomas Y. Crowell in New York in 1966. Von Braun, then director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, wrote the account w/ Ordway, a space historian who had worked beside him at Huntsville, as the United States built toward a landing on the Moon. Harry H-K Lange, an artist at the Marshall center, supplied the original illustrations, and Frederick C. Durant III of the Smithsonian Institution wrote the introduction. Color and b&w illustrations, photographs and diagrams fill most pages, from the German V-2 to the Saturn rockets, and a bibliography and index close the volume. Lange and Ordway went on to serve as technical advisers on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minnesota bound the Deluxe Limited Edition, here a First Edition, First Printing, in handcrafted Mission Leather, w/ a printed photographic rocket panel across the front board and spine, illustrated endpapers and decorative sprinkled edges. A revised edition followed in 1969, and the text returned in 1985 as Space Travel: A History.…

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Titre
History of Rocketry and Space Travel: Deluxe Limited Leather Binding by Brown & Bigelow (First Edition, First Printing, 1966)
Auteur
Wernher von Braun; Frederick I. Ordway III
Éditeur
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Année de publication
1966
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
First Edition, First Printing; D.
Poids de l'article
49 onces
Dimensions
8.75 x 11.25 in
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