LIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKET DEVELOPMENT

by Robert H. Goddard

$4,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

City of Washington: Published by The Smithsonian Institution, 1936. Octavo, pp. 1-2 1-10, eleven pages of illustrations on six inserted plates, original tan wrappers printed in black, sewn, untrimmed. First edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 95, Number 3 Publication 3381 . Includes the first public mention of Goddard's historic 1926 liquid-fueled rocket launch Ciancone .

• Binding: Wrappers

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