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Temple Press Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. No edition remarks. 164 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.

Temple Press 1950. 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)

Penguin Publishing Group, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Temple Press, 1952 blue cloth some minor faint spotting, DW unclipped, minor chipping to corners and spine ends, spine faintly browned, small amount of foxing to cover, viii 164pp + plates, third impression, short 4 character inscription to paste down, early non-fiction by Arthur C Clarke on space travel giving the probability and obstacles to be overcome. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Temple Press, 1960. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second edition first printing octavo hardback 152 pp. illustrated. Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

New York: Berkley Books, 1985 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.

London: Temple Press, 1960. 2nd edition. Nice Copy. small octavo. dust jacket viii + 144pp., frontis., b/w plates, appends., bibliog., index, Early volume by the then Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Second edition of ClarkeÕs first book, with corrections of errors and more rigourous treatment of transit velocities. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket with minimal chips. Uncommon

New York: L. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. First American Edition, circa 1951, printed in Great Britain. 164 pages, illus. w/ photo frontis, b/w photos, diagrams. 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. DJ is poor to Fair w/ some rubbing, wrinkles, diagonal tear partially across front & vertical tear along spine. Still, it's all there & together, & actually displays pretty well in mylar protector (included). Blue cloth binding is clean & square; no bumps, soil, sun, etc. Spine lettering is crisp & intact. Hint of toning to text; tight, clean, unmarked.

1950. Hard. ACCEPTABLE. BB95 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.

New York: L. Harper & Brothers, 1951. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Viii, 164 Pp. Blue Cloth Printed In Black. First American Edition, Using English Sheets. First Issue With "A" At Lower Left Of Title Page; No Date But 1951. Dj Priced $2.50. Very Good, Light Wear, No Marks. Dj With Wear, Browning To White Spine Lettering, 3/16" V-Chip At Upper Rear Spine Corner, Minute Losses At Other Corners And Tips.

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. 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… Read More

London: Temple Press, 1951. 2nd printing. Nice Copy. small octavo. chipped dust jacket viii + 164pp., frontis., b/w plates, appendix, bibliog., index, Early volume by the then Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Second printing of ClarkeÕs 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

L. Harper & Brothers. 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. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing.

New York: L. Harper and Brothers, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 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.

London, United Kingdom: Temple Press, 1951. Clarke's first non-fiction book written when he was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. With corrections to velocity calculations from 1st imp. CONDITION Blue cloth is unworn with sharp cnrs, very slight wear to spine head rear, pp viii 164 with 16 illus plates and 15 figural illus through text. A nice crisp and bright copy. Original DJ has Silverfished spine and is price clipped else bright and clean.. 2nd Impression. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Temple Press Limited, 1950. Hardcover. 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. 1950

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, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jackcet. 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.

New York: L. Harper and Brothers, [1951]. [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.

London: Temple Press, 1960. 2nd edition. Nice Copy. small octavo. dust jacket viii + 144pp., frontis., b/w plates, appends., bibliog., index, Early volume by the then Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Second edition of ClarkeÕs 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 ownerÕs special bookplate on the front end paper