Space by Cleator Philip (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. 1st Edition. 159 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In Silver. First Printing Of This "Comprehensive Appraisal Of The Interplanetary Idea" By The Founder Of The British Interplanetary Society. Fine, No Wear, Ownership Name Of (E?) Beauchamp On Front Free Endpaper, No Other Marks Or Damage. Dj Clean, Not Price-Clipped, Light Wear At Corners And Part Of Spine Edges, Minute Losses At Top Of Spine And At Tips, 1/2' Closed Tear At Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge, Faint Smearing Of The Blue Ink On The Rear Panel, Slight Browning To Top Edges Of Flaps And To Fore Edge And Top Edge Of White Rear Panel, And Some Browning To White Lettering On Spine. Plates (illustrator).…

Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-159 [160: publisher's imprint], 15 plates, 26 figures and 6 cartoons in the text, original dark blue boards stamped in silver. First edition. The second book on space travel by Philip Ellaby Cleator (1908-1994), the founder and first president of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). Ciancone 52. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 491. Bookplate of early aeronautics collector Merritt Edward Peck affixed to the front paste-down. Mild bump to upper front corner tip, a nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with shallow chips from spine ends and some tanning to spine and rear panels. (#160309).…