Aeronautics and Flight
WAR FOR THE MOON.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. Octavo, numerous illustration ands photographs, cloth. First edition. Contemporary to the time period of the early race for the moon.
THE MAKING OF A MOON: THE STORY OF THE EARTH SATELLITE PROGRAM.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1958]. 24 plates, 24 figures in the text, original blue boards with black cloth shelf back, front and spine panels stamped in silver, fore-edge untrimmed. Revised edition. [Reference: Ciancone 50].
LIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKET DEVELOPMENT ...
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). [Reference: Ciancone 85. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 491. Interlibrum 270 #151].
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].