Strange Angel : The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle - 2005

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005-01-18. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.3400 in x 9.1300 in x 6.2200 in.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Very Good. Hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! May have signs of use, wear and minor cosmetic defects.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harcourt, 2005-01-18. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover in jacket shows ink to text. Please email for photos.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2005. First edition, first letter (full number line). Hardcover. Fine to fine(-) in fine jacket with very faint wear to extremities of both. Jacket housed in a mylar sleeve. in fine dust-jacket. Small quarto in multi-color (predominanltly blue and yelllow/green) jacket; 350 pages: illustrations; 24 cm bibliographical references and index. Well-written. "A lonely misfit born into a wealthy Pasadena family, as a boy Parsons read science fiction and launched rockets in his backyard. By his early twenties, he was a leader of Caltech's "Suicide Squad," the motley band of young enthusiasts who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality, he lost both his work and his wife. With a cast of characters that includes Aleister Crowley, Howard Hughes, L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein, Theodore von Kármán, and Albert Einstein, this book… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2005. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good. Advance reader's copy. Light rubbing and yellowing to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Light soiling to text block edges, pages otherwise clean.

Harcourt, 2005-01-18. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!