A METHOD OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES ...
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 use of rockets for space travel. [Reference: Ciancone 84. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 491. Interlibrum 270 #151]. Touch of foxing along fore-edges of several leaves, 20 mm closed tear along bottom edge of rear spine fold, else a fine, largely unopened, copy. Among the best extant copies of this seminal work. Enclosed in a custom quarter blue leather clamshell box with leather spine label. (#160969) (24135). Item #24135
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