CLARKE, Arthur Charles - Interplanetary Flight: An introduction to astronautics

Publisher: L. Harper & Brothers (1951), New York. 8vo., hardcover. illustrated with frontispiece & 15 full-page plates by Leslie Carr, R A Smith, Frank Tinsley et; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Luis Marden, National Geographic explorer who invented underwater photography. The book includes an "A" on the title and half-title page, light blue cloth boards with blue-lettered spine, illustrated very good dust jacket with $2.50 price on the front flap, sixteen inserted photographs including the frontispiece, and fourteen diagrammatic line drawings within the text, 164pp., with index. Some light around edges of jacket. Blue cloth boards in excellent condition. This book came from Luis Marden s Frank Lloyd Wright House. First edition, U.S. issue (UK sheets). Octavo, cloth. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries).