THE YOUNG TRAVELLER IN SPACE

by Arthur C. Clarke

$550 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1954 . Large octavo, pp. 1-4 5 6 7-72, color frontispiece from a drawing by R. A. Smith, 29 illustrations from photographs on plate paper, and 6 diagrams in the text, original full-color pictorial boards. First edition. Clarke's third book on rocketry and space travel, this one for young readers. Published later the same year in the U.S. with some differences in content as GOING INTO SPACE.

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