Conquest of the Moon

by Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple: Willy Ley

$4,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First edition, first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the title page. viii , 126 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in silver. Very Good with moderate wear and soiling to covers, 1-3/4 inch tear to lower edge of contents page. Gift inscription dated 1984 to half-title page. Offsetting from two newspaper clippings taped to facing page, likely indicating occasion of book's

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