Interplanetary Flight
by CLARKE, Arthur C. [Charles]
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
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.
"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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54185
- Title
- Interplanetary Flight
- Author
- CLARKE, Arthur C. [Charles]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Temple Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction;
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- Rubbing
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- Bumps
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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