THE PROMISE OF SPACE by Clarke, Arthur C - 1968

New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1968. (xxi) 325 pp. Black cloth with a small silver pictorial on the front panel; decorated in silver and copper on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, drawings and diagrams. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; book plate on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Beginnings: Imaginary Voyages; From Fantasy to Science; Nothing to Push Against; Power for Space; Escape from Earth; Other Orbits Other Moons; The Price of Speed. Around the Earth: Moonrise in the West; Opening Skies; First Harvest; Man in Orbit; Islands in the Sky. Around the Moon: Voyagers to the Moon; The Birth of Apollo; The Vehicle; The Mission; The Moon; The Uses of the Moon; The Lunar Colony. Around the Sun: The Trillion-Mile Whirlpool; Paths to the Planets; Children of the Sun; The Outer Giants; The Commerce of the Heavens; Tomorrow's Worlds. Around the Universe: Other Suns Than Ours; Across the Abyss; To the Stars; Where's Everybody; and Concerning Means and Ends; followed by an index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.