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Rockets Books & Ephemera
Appointment In The Sky
by Sol Levine
1963 hardcover as pictured. Ex-library with usual markings. Binding is intact. Blue cloth boards are clean and show only light edge wear. Dust jacket is complete and protected in a mylar sleeve. Lower corner of FFEP is missing. Some pencil markings in text. Includes many b&w photos and illustrations. An interesting book particularly since the revival of the NASA moon program. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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£12.19
Still In the Bush
by Beadell, Len
Sydney: New Holland. 1975. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. 175 pages. Beadell's account of the work which had to be done "before they called it Woomera". Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.45
Rockets and Missles
by Taylor, John W. R
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+. 1970. Hardcover. Includes history, rockets into space, men into space, reaching the moon, guidance and control, experiments for the future, etc. Contains an index and a breif suggested reading list in the rear. Contains 215 color illustrations. Bound in the publisher's original color pictorial covers with a little faint age spotting, this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. ; Grosset All Color Guides...
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£12.15
THE MAKING OF A MOON: THE STORY OF THE EARTH SATELLITE PROGRAM
by Clarke, Arthur C
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1958]. Revised edition. Some tanning to end papers, mild wear to corner tips, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with inked name to lower front flap, light rubbing and wear to corner tips and spine ends, small chip to upper front panel with crease, split and small chip at upper rear flap fold. (28622). 24 plates, 24 figures in the text, original blue boards with black cloth shelf back, front and spine panels stamped in silver, fore-edge untrimmed....
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£60.97
Western Aviation Missiles and Space (April 1961) 33rd Annual Directory
by Western Aviation
Western Aviation. 1961. Wraps. Wraps (softcover). 1961. Western Aviation. 150 pages. Some wear to the magazine, else Good condition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 150 pages .
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£40.64
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS ..
by Clarke, Arthur C
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1950]. First edition, U.S. issue (UK sheets). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, a sharp copy. (28535). Octavo, cloth. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
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£365.80
Those Were the Days! My Life In South Australia: 1943-1970 (Signed by Author)
by Winter, Ivan
Seacliff Park, SA: Magpie Press. 2010. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Mint - a New copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 409 pages. After growing up in the small township of Halbury in South Australia's Wakefield Plains, 102kms north of Adelaide, Ivan Winter made a crucial decision that affected the rest of his life. He entered an entirely different world of rockets and space research at...
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£20.87
Space Physics with Artificial Satellites. Authorized translation from the Russian by H. H. Nickle
by Al'pert, Ya.L.; A.V. Gurevich; and L.P. Pitaevskii
New York: Consultants Bureau, 1965. Hardcover. x, 240p., running text with swarming math formulae on every quarto leaf, hardbound in blue papered boards enclosed in badly chipped and rubbed dust jacket. The casebinding, the book itself, is quite edgeworn with minute roughings-up at head, tail and corner-tips and severe marginal sunning. Hinges are perfectly sound, endsheets and entire textblock, sound, clean and unmarked, a good reading copy. FYI, none of the chipping of dj has affected dj texts...
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£16.26
Space Project
by Davis, Lynn (Photographer)
US: The Monacelli Press, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 128 pages. Lynn Davis, known for surveys of natural and man-made wonders, has long been fascinated with the objects and venues of space exploration. Her photographs of the architectural icons, cornerstones, and abandoned sites of the space race reflect the many facets of a historically complex industry: the beginnings of space exploration; the changing nature of technology; and a fascination with otherworldly ruins. She...
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£40.64
WAR FOR THE MOON
by Caidin, Martin
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. First edition. Inked name and address stamp to front free end paper, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild wear to the spine ends and wear to slight loss at upper front corner tip. (28624). Octavo, numerous illustration ands photographs, cloth. Contemporary to the time period of the early race for the moon.
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£36.58
For the benefit of all mankind, a survey of the practical returns from space investment. Report of the Committee on science and astronautics
by United States. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.: GPO, 1970. vii, 61p., plain printed white self-wraps, very good copy. 91st congress second session Serial R.
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£9.75
Kingdom of Lesotho / Space Exploration Issue 1981
Masuru, Lesotho: the kingdom, 1981. Single leaf of thick glossy stock, 8x23 inches, recto and verso texts with seven exhibit photos in color, five of which of postal stamps. Voyager One had recently beamed images of Saturn; three stamps illustrate the probe's encounters and two the Space Shuttle. Find an Official Order Form at one end, it has suffered a teensy corner-crease, a very good copy.
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£9.75
Summer Pyrotechnics Chemistry Seminars Washington College Chestertown, Maryland 1999
Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. Three ring binder. Three ring binder. Owners notes throughout, else Very Good. 1999. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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£101.61
Sputnik to Space Shuttle. 25 years of the Space Age
by Nicolson, Iain
London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 1982. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-madeclear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 207 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.83
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS
by Clarke, Arthur C
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, n.d., [1950]. First edition, U. S. issue (UK sheets). Bookplate of collector Robert Briney affixed to front paste down, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to corners and spine ends. (19697). Octavo, cloth. Title page is a cancel. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel,...
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£203.22
Reaching For The Stars
by Erik Bergaust
1960 hardcover as pictured. Stated first edition. Binding is firm. Black boards with silver stamping show edge wear. Edges aged, text is clean and appears unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed with small tears at edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (AR)
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£12.19
Jane's Pocket Book of Space Exploration
by Wilding-White, T. M
Place_Pub: New York: Collier Books, 1977. 1st Collier Edition. First? Printing. good, ex-lib.. 11 x 18 cm, 238, wraps, illus., index, usual library markings.
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£16.46£12.35
Guided Missile Data Sheet
by La Salle Steel Company
La Salle Steel Company. 1958. Wraps. 1958. La Salle Steel Company. Four full pages of data folded to make an unbound booklet. Double sided. Xerox/mimeograph style quality. Very Good condition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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£28.45
Wege zur Raumschiffahrt
by Oberth, Hermann
Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1929. Oberth, Hermann (1894-1989). Wege zur Raumschiffahrt. xi, 431pp. 4 plates. Munich & Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1929. 236 x 163 mm. Original cloth, front cover slightly warped. Fine copy. Publisher's blurb for Die Möglichkeit der Weltraumfahrt (1928), ed. Willy Ley, tipped to the front free endpaper.
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£1,016.12
Proceedings of the 17th International Pyrotechnics Seminar Combined with the 2nd Beijing International Symposium on Pyrotechnics and Explosives October 28-31, 1991 (2 Volumes)
Beijing Institute of Technology Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 1991. Library labels on spine, else Very Good condition. 1108 pages. Beijing Institute of Technology Press. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1108 pages .
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£77.23
Preindications of failure in electronic components: RSIC 445
by Klapheke, J. W., B. C. Spradlin and J. L. Easterday
Redstone Arsenal AL: Research Branch, Redstone Scientific Information Center, U. S. Army Missile Command, 1965. Paperback. v, 58p., keyboard-set text, plain printed 11x8.5 inch wraps, very good copy. Contents cover the results of component testing, future or planned work, literature cited, bibliography, survey participants. The distribution list, covering about forty persons / organizations, most of whom get single copies, might be of mild interest. Contract no. DA 01 021 AMC 11706 (Z) Batelle Memorial...
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£9.75
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS ..
by Clarke, Arthur C
London: Temple Press Limited, [1950]. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a darkened spine panel and moderate dust soiling. (28534). Octavo, cloth. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
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£812.90
Sputniks to Space Travel
Toronto: Northern Book House, 1958. 45p., staplebound wraps, toned newsprint; front cover heavily foxed. Northern Translations Service Report #7. "More than 30 top cosmic scientists of the Soviet Union give you their authoritative, fascinating views." Pro-Soviet Canadian press.
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£12.19
