A METHOD OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES

by Robert H. Goddard

$12,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

City of Washington: Published by The Smithsonian Institution, 1919 i.e. 1920 . Octavo, pp. 1-3 4-69 70: blank , ten pages of illustrations on five inserted plates, original gray wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 71, Number 2 Publication 2540 . Actually published in 1920, despite stated publication date of 1919. The first monograph in English on the

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