The Young Traveller in Space
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Young Traveller in Space
London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1954
Large 8vo., decorative boards in full colour showing a space scene, rocket, and astronauts beneath a planet and starry sky; together in the repeat dustwrapper (unclipped, priced 7/6 net to front flap), both illustrated by Edmund Louis Blandford; pp. [iv], 5-72, with full-colour frontis of a space station ‘that may one day orbit the Earth’; along with an additional five pages of plates and six figures within text; pages evenly toned, as is common; previous ownership name in blue ink to ffep; slightly spotted to the upper edge; else an excellent copy in the like dustwrapper, just a little nicked, chipped and spotted at edges, mildly rubbed along folds.
First UK edition, also issued in the same year in the USA until the title Going into Space, with some minor differences.
Clarke’s third work of non-fiction on the subject of rockets, space travel, and other scientific developments over the course of 300 years, from the visions of de Bergerac in 1656 through the 1954, when this book was published. With some very interesting speculation on the subject of future space travel.
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Young Traveller in Space
London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1954
Large 8vo., decorative boards in full colour showing a space scene, rocket, and astronauts beneath a planet and starry sky; together in the repeat dustwrapper (unclipped, priced 7/6 net to front flap), both illustrated by Edmund Louis Blandford; pp. [iv], 5-72, with full-colour frontis of a space station ‘that may one day orbit the Earth’; along with an additional five pages of plates and six figures within text; pages evenly toned, as is common; previous ownership name in blue ink to ffep; slightly spotted to the upper edge; else an excellent copy in the like dustwrapper, just a little nicked, chipped and spotted at edges, mildly rubbed along folds.
First UK edition, also issued in the same year in the USA until the title Going into Space, with some minor differences.
Clarke’s third work of non-fiction on the subject of rockets, space travel, and other scientific developments over the course of 300 years, from the visions of de Bergerac in 1656 through the 1954, when this book was published. With some very interesting speculation on the subject of future space travel.
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Young Traveller in Space
London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1954
Large 8vo., decorative boards in full colour showing a space scene, rocket, and astronauts beneath a planet and starry sky; together in the repeat dustwrapper (unclipped, priced 7/6 net to front flap), both illustrated by Edmund Louis Blandford; pp. [iv], 5-72, with full-colour frontis of a space station ‘that may one day orbit the Earth’; along with an additional five pages of plates and six figures within text; pages evenly toned, as is common; previous ownership name in blue ink to ffep; slightly spotted to the upper edge; else an excellent copy in the like dustwrapper, just a little nicked, chipped and spotted at edges, mildly rubbed along folds.
First UK edition, also issued in the same year in the USA until the title Going into Space, with some minor differences.
Clarke’s third work of non-fiction on the subject of rockets, space travel, and other scientific developments over the course of 300 years, from the visions of de Bergerac in 1656 through the 1954, when this book was published. With some very interesting speculation on the subject of future space travel.