Interplanetary Flight Introduction Astronautics by Clarke Arthur (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Blue cloth covers with light wear on corners and spine ends. Chipping and wear to bottom edges. Moderate shelf wear and soiling to covers. Text is clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Illustrated with multiple charts, graphs and b&w photos. Chapters detail Earth Satellites and Lunar Probes, Interplanetary Flight, Spaceships and Space Stations and much more. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Third printing, 1952, of the 1950 first edition. 12mo. 164 pages. Plate illustrations. List of Plates. Mathematical Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Cased in blue cloth with all stamping in dark-blue. No signs of previous ownership. Not a library discard. A fine copy in a very good, lightly worn price-clipped dust jacket.

SECOND EDITION, ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, white planet illus to front board, frontispiece, viii + 144pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings, moderate bruising & scuffing to board edges & extrems, moderate tape staining to boards & eps, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & fading to spine, moderate tanning & tape staining to flaps, moderate chafing).

FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 164pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading & foxing to spine, light foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, minor foxing sporadically throughout, light cracking to some gutters).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Presumed First Edition. Book is in Very Good condition, dust jacket is in Good condition, with minor loss to the head of the jacket spine. Otherwise clean, tightly bound, and unmarked. Clarke's "Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics," the author's first book, is a foundational non-fiction work that provides a highly accessible yet technically grounded overview of the principles and challenges of space travel. Written before the dawn of the space age, the book showcases Clarke's remarkable foresight and understanding of astronautics. Laying out the theoretical groundwork for space travel and inspiring generations with the vision of humanity's future among the stars, the volume cemented Clarke's reputation as a prescient voice in both science fiction and non-fiction related to space. Octavo, 164 pp., index. Mylar protected.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Berkley edition. A Very Tight Book, No Marks Or Inscriptions, No Creasing Or Chipping. In Excellent Condition. Illustrated Card Covers With White Lettering On A Background Of A Galaxy. White Title On Spine. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Leslie Carr, R A Smith, Frank Tinsley, et al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition, with an "A" on the title and half-title page, light blue cloth boards with blue-lettered spine, illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price on the front flap, sixteen inserted photographs including the frontispiece, and fourteen diagrammatic line drawings within the text, 164pp., with index. Clarke's first published book while Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Book with faint toning to page margins, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a bit of tanning to spine and folds and light edge wear, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, page edges foxed, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed and chipped at the edges, 3cm closed tear at top of front foldover/cover split at spine, white mark on back cover. vii + 164 pages, photos and illustrations on plates, appendix, bibliography, index.

Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1960 HC/no jacket. Harper & Bros revised ed. Flaps from jacket are pasted into front & rear board. Back hinge cracked though very intact. Wear & soiling to withdrawn library. Clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 164 pages; 1951 Harper & Brothers. HC/DJ. Presumably the 2nd printing of the American edition, still using sheets printed in Great Britain, with no sytatement of printing but lacking any letter on the copyright or title pages. Soundly bound and generally clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Though without his usual ownership stamp, this copy from the personal library of Luis Freile, credited with the 1st commercial atlas of the moon in his capacity as cartographer at Rand McNally. Freile's scattered light scholalrly marginalia in chapters 2 &3 relating to the gravcitational field of the earth and the force required by a rocket to escape that field etc. Dust jacket lightly toned surfaces and with light shelf rubbing, a few shallow nicks and short closed tears at edges. Illustrated with b&w photos, figures, graphs and diagrams. Clarke's early scientific musings on travel to the moon and beyond. VG-/VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. CLEAN near fine first edition hardcover with very good dust jacket. First Printing: no note of subsequent printings or added notes to preface, ""A"" printed below publisher's name on title page, ""A*"" printed on half title page, $2.50 price on DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. VG in G DJ. First edition, "A" on title page and half-title page. Light signs of wear to exterior, binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked. Unclipped ("$2.50") jacket has moderate chipping at edges, tears on spine, detached back flap and signs of general wear, else intact and in good shape. Clearly read, but a nice copy. first edition, "A" on title page and half-title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Impression.hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp vii, 144. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered navy blue at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Author's first book. Very good indeed in slightly nicked and tanned, near very good slightly used dust jacket, with faint surface wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American edition. 5 x 8 in. Blue cloth boards with dark blue spine titles. First US edition, 1951, with A on title and half title pgs. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; corners and spine ends mildly bumped with minor wear, covers very clean and fresh. Binding tight and text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped ($2.50) very clean, a touch toned, edges worn with some chips to corners and spine ends. Rear is a bit more toned with a couple of tiny stains. In a new Mylar wrapper. SCi-fi/Fiction. RGR.

Condition: very good. 1st edition. viii, 164pp. 12mo. Light blue cloth covered boards with navy lettering on spine. Slight wear and fading to ends of spine and corners. Very subtle hint of a bow to front board. Clean, tight text block through out. Rich with many black and white photographs and diagrams. In yellow dust jacket, not price clipped. Fading and discolouration to spine of jacket and slightly to other edges. Creasing and slight chipping to top and bottom edges, especially at spine where a small amount of professional restoration has been done. A few small, slight soil spots on jacket. A great copy of a wonderfully interesting book. very good An interesting essay on the subject of traveling to other planets, and was undoubtedly state of the art at the time it was written. Today, given our large advances since the time it was written, it is much more interesting as a historical text, looking into what top scientists were thinking at the time.

Hardcover. Reprint. 19 x 12.5 cm. 12mo. viii164pp. Bibliography and index. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of phootgraphs and 14 diagrammatic line drawings. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. No edition stated but has "note to the third impression" in the preface. Jacket spine is toned. Original price of $2.50 present on front flap. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Side of front cover of the cloth is bumped. A work of nonficiton written for a lay audience. Very Good in Very Good dust jackcet.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of this scarce first edition of Arthur C. Clarke's first book. Blue covers with black titles to spine. No marks or inscriptions.Pages all clean and bright. In vg unclipped (8s.6d.) dj which is a little grubby and had very minor chips to top spine area.164pp.Now in removable protective covering.

[Space Exploration] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION USING BRITISH SHEETS. 'A' on title below imprint, 'A*' to half-title. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 164; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in blue to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of $2.50 to front flap. Sixteen photographic pages, fourteen diagrammatic illustrations. White speckling to cloth, jacket rubbed and worn to spine, some chips and tears, toned to rear panel. Very good. Clarke is writing at the time when society was on the precipice of space exploration 'about to enter the age of interplanetary travel - first by radio-controlled, unmanned rockets and, later, by true "spaceships."' He aims also to make his books accessible to those who are not professionals in the field of interplanetary flight.

First edition, U.S. issue (UK sheets). Octavo, cloth. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). [Reference: Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, a sharp copy. (28535).

FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK WITH PUBLISHER NAME "L. HARPER & BROTHERS" AND AN "A" BENEATH PUBLISHER'S NAME ON THE TITLE PAGE WHICH IS NOT A CANCEL, AND AN "A" AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HALF TITLE WITH FRONTISPIECE ON VERSO. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS JUST A TRACE OF RUB/WEAR AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS, AND SLIGHTLY RUBBED VERTICAL FOLDS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AS NICE AND FRESH A COPY OF THIS BOOK THAT YOU WILL FIND. FIRST EDITION.

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Clarke's first book. Great associational copy with signatures of many post war science fiction authors, editors and fans. Signed by Clarke and; Walter Gillings, Ted Carnell, John Beynon Harris, C. S. Youd (John Christopher), Eric Williams, William F. Temple, Fred[erick] C. Brown, M. E. Allen, John Frederick Burke, J[ohn] Newman, and one unidentified. All were active in British fandom which met at the White Horse pub in London and all the signatories with the exception of one are on a known list of attendees at the 1948 Whitcon, the first post-war British science fiction convention. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). [Reference: Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490]. Small bookseller label to lower front paste down, fading to cloth along upper edge and spine panel, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some overall darkening, especially to the spine panel, closed tear to upper left front panel, closed tear and crease to lower right rear panel, and a touch of wear to spine ends. (32919).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. 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. Small private owner's book label affixed at top edge of the front paste-down. Some rubbing to cloth along bottom edge, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with several closed tears along top edge, some dust soiling, and two clips from front flap one removing the printed price but not affecting the printed flap copy. (#161899).

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). [Reference: Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490]. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a darkened spine panel and moderate dust soiling. (28534).

1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. First American Edition, uncommon First Issue of Clarke's first book. The correct L Harper edition, with the letter 'A' printed below the publisher's name on the title-page and 'A' with an asterisk on the half-title. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A near fine or better copy in blue cloth, dark blue titles to the spine in a very good dustwrapper correctly priced at $2.50 showing light use primarily at the extremities of the spine. Illustrated with frontispiece & 15 full-page plates by Leslie Carr, R A Smith, Frank Tinsley et al. 32979.

2nd edition dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo viii + 144pp., frontis., b/w plates, appends., bibliog., index, Early volume by the then Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Second edition of Clarke's first book, with corrections of errors and more rigourous treatment of transit velocities. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket with minimal chips. Uncommon.

2nd printing chipped dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo viii + 164pp., frontis., b/w plates, appendix, bibliog., index, Early volume by the then Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Second printing of Clarke's first book, with corrections of errors and more rigourous treatment of transit velocities. Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket with minimal chips. Important & scarce.

2nd edition dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo viii + 144pp., frontis., b/w plates, appends., bibliog., index, Early volume by the then Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Second edition of Clarke's first book, with corrections of errors and more rigourous treatment of transit velocities. Neat ownership signature o/w very nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke on owner's special bookplate on the front end paper.