History of Rocketry & Space Travel

by Wernher von Braun, Frederick I. Ordway Iii

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Chicago: J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company, 1966. First edition, first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the half-title page. From the library of von Braun's co-author Frederick I. Ordway III, his bookplate to front pastedown. xi, 244 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver spine lettering, yellow topstain. Very Good with light wear and mottling to covers, slight bowing to boards, foxing to textblock edges.

• Printing: first

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