Description:
Viking, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
ROCKETS, MISSILES AND SPACE TRAVEL by Ley, Willy - 1958
by Ley, Willy
Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
ROCKETS, MISSILES AND SPACE TRAVEL
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- Hardcover
New York: Viking Press, 1958. Revised and enlarged edition. . Hardcover. Chelsey Bonestell. Rocket development and space travel prospects. 528 pages with illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. Bound in original gray cloth with lettering in red. A very good plus copy.
- Bookseller Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books (US)
- Illustrator Chelsey Bonestell
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition Revised and enlarged edition.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Viking Press
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1958
- Keywords space, rockets, missles,
We have 19 copies available starting at £17.73.
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Willy Ley
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
£17.73
Show Details
Item Price
£17.73
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Willy Ley
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
£17.73
Show Details
Description:
Viking, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
£17.73
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
- Item Price
-
£18.86
Show Details
Description:
Viking Press, 1952-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover in dust jacket. 1952 printing. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Dust Jacket is worn on edges and creased. Book is musty.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Item Price
£18.86
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- G
- Edition
- Revised Ed, 3rd Ptg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Item Price
-
£24.82
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Viking Press, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light grey cloth, red titles on front board & spine, xvi. 528 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 85 figures, bibliography, index. Spine browned, spine ends and corners worn, bookplate on front paste-down. DJ paper browned, spine faded, edges worn and chipped, laminated by previous owner (the adhesive has caused some bleeding of the ink, giving a somewhat muddy appearance). Willy Ley's Rockets first appeared in 1944, was greatly enlarged twice under new titles--Rockets and Space travel in 1947 and the present work in 1951--and went through intermediate minor revisions and expansions, all on account of rapid developments in rocketry in the postwar period. This printing adds Sputnik data to the Revised Edition. Ley traces the development of rockets from early fireworks and war rockets, through the 20th century experiments such as those of Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth, and into the…
Read More Item Price
£24.82
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- Condition
- Used - fair, ex-lib.
- Edition
- Revised Edition. Sixth Printing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
£21.63
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Revised Edition. Sixth Printing. fair, ex-lib.. 528, illus., appendices, notes and tables, bibliography, index, weakness to fr bd, lib stamps, bds scuffed, sp worn & lib number
Item Price
£21.63
ROCKETS MISSILES AND SPACE TRAVEL
by LEY, WILLY:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
DUNEDIN, New Zealand
- Item Price
-
£7.32
Show Details
Description:
Chapman & Hall Ltd London 1952. reprint, red cloth, 436pp illus, VG(v sl cocked, sl wear & scuffing to edges, sl rubbed & soiled, booksellers stamp to ffep, sl foxing to ep's & edges)
Item Price
£7.32
More Photos
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - G+
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Item Price
-
£29.63
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Viking Press, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, yellow titles & decoration on front board, yellow titles spine, xii. 436 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, 64 figures, bibliography, index. 2 mm tear to head of spine, else VG, paper slightly browned, lightly rubbed. Willy Ley's Rockets first appeared in 1944, was greatly enlarged twice under new titles--Rockets and Space travel in 1947 and the present work, of which this is the first printing, in 1951--and went through intermediate minor revisions and expansions, all on account of rapid developments in rocketry in the postwar period. Ley gives a vivid and readable account of the development of rockets from early fireworks and war rockets, through the 20th century experiments such as those of Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth, and into the era of modern rocketry beginning with the German V-2 during the Second World War and subsequent developments. Shipping weight 3 lbs..…
Read More Item Price
£29.63
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- Condition
- Used - very good, fair
- Edition
- Revised Edition. Third Printing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
£34.04
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Revised Edition. Third Printing. very good, fair. 528, illus., appendices, notes and tables, bibliography, index, DJ stained and worn: small tears, small pieces missing. Revised and enlarged edition with Sputnik data.
Item Price
£34.04
Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
by Ley, Willy
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - good, fair
- Edition
- First? Edition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
£40.05
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First? Edition. good, fair. 436, illus., fold-out color chart at rear, appendices, notes and tables, bibliography, index, DJ soiled, worn, small tears/chips. Small rough spot inside front flyleaf.
Item Price
£40.05
ROCKETS, MISSILES, AND SPACE TRAVEL
by Willy Ley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Revised and Enlarged Edition; Fifth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Pomona, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
£40.01
Show Details
Description:
New York: Viking Press. 1958. Revised and Enlarged Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in boards. .
Item Price
£40.01