Interplanetary Flight by Clarke, Arthur C

Temple Press Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. No edition remarks. 164 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.

Temple Press Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1951. Reprinted. 164 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Dent to rear board. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Sticker to front flap. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Temple Press 1950. FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 164pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading & foxing to spine, light foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, minor foxing sporadically throughout, light cracking to some gutters)

London: Temple Press Ltd, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Faded blue cloth boards, some browning and faint stains, black titles on sunned spine. No edge / corner wear. Cut edges foxed. Clean age yellowed endpapers and text block. 15 B/w diagrams and 16 fine plates including frontispiece. Binding solid. No jacket.

London: Temple Press Limited, 1950. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth covered boards titled in blue on the spine; 164pp.; illustrated with 16 black & white plates. Spine is toned; minor bumps and rubbing to the extremities; minor soil to upper textblock and boards; internally clean/tight copy; Very Good or better, lacking the dustjacket. "This book is intended as a survey of the possibilities and problems of interplanetary flight, as far as they can be forseen at the present day. Although the science of astonautics still belongs to the future, many of it's basic conceptions will remain unaltered by the passage of time, and most of the fundamental techniques already exist in th eembyro." (from the preface); "One of his most important non-fiction works" CLUTE & NICHOLLS, p.230.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Berkley, 1985-02-01T00:00:01Z. mass_market. Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Berkley, 1985-02-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. New York, 1985; illustrated black paper covers; bottom corner of front cover creased; 2 inch by 1/2 inch chunk missing from top edge of front cover; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 164 pages.

NY. Very Good; Ex-Library with a pink withdrawn stamped on the front free end . paper, top page edges, and back of the rear cover. There is also the . residue from the library pocket, but otherwise free other markings. There . was a sticker on the spine that was removed without doing too much damage, . however it did take some of the top layer of paper in a few spots, and . someone colored in the spots with black marker to match the rest of the . cover (while never something I would do to a book that I was selling/a . collectible book, this was done rather well and sparingly and is only . noticeable when you're looking for it. ) The rest of the book is tightly . bound still with clean pages, all the B&W illustrations and photos are . still present. ; Mass Market Paperback; Berkley; 1985. 0425064484 . 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 164 p. .

New York: L. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. First American Edition, circa 1951, printed in Great Britain. 164 pages, illus. w/ photo frontis, b/w photos, diagrams. First Printing: no note of subsequent printings or added notes to preface, ""A"" printed below publisher's name on title page, ""A*"" printed on half title page, $2.50 price on DJ. DJ is poor to Fair w/ some rubbing, wrinkles, diagonal tear partially across front & vertical tear along spine. Still, it's all there & together, & actually displays pretty well in mylar protector (included). Blue cloth binding is clean & square; no bumps, soil, sun, etc. Spine lettering is crisp & intact. Hint of toning to text; tight, clean, unmarked.