THE COMING AGE OF ROCKET POWER

by G. Edward Pendray

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1945 . Octavo, pp. 1-12 1-244, 23 illustrations on 16 plates, 19 illustrations and diagrams in the text, original red cloth stamped in blue and gold,fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A history of rocketry from twelfth century China to the close of World War II, by a journalist, science and science fiction writer, industrial publicist, and rocket pioneer who was one

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