ROCKET PROPULSION WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE IDEA OF INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL

by Eric Burgess

$200 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1952. Octavo, pp. 1-4 5-7 8 9-235 236: blank , 56 figures, some of which are photographic on plate paper, 18 tables, original decorated blue cloth stamped in silver. First edition. The author's first book on rockets and space travel, a semi-technical work devoted to rocket propulsion and its potential use for space exploration and interplanetary travel. In June 1936, Burgess founded the

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