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Interplanetary Flight. An Introduction to Astronautics. Technical Trends Series.
by Clarke, Arthur C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Temple Press Limited, 1950. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. viii, 164pp. 12mo. Light blue cloth covered boards with navy lettering on spine. Slight wear and fading to ends of spine and corners. Very subtle hint of a bow to front board. Clean, tight text block through out. Rich with many black and white photographs and diagrams. In yellow dust jacket, not price clipped. Fading and discolouration to spine of jacket and slightly to other edges. Creasing and slight chipping to top and bottom edges, especially at spine where a small amount of professional restoration has been done. A few small, slight soil spots on jacket. A great copy of a wonderfully interesting book. very good An interesting essay on the subject of traveling to other planets, and was undoubtedly state of the art at the time it was written. Today, given our large advances since the time it was written, it is much more interesting as a historical text, looking into what top scientists were thinking at the time. 1950
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134391
- Title
- Interplanetary Flight. An Introduction to Astronautics. Technical Trends Series.
- Author
- Clarke, Arthur C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Temple Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Astronautics|Interplanetary Flight|Planetary Exploration|Planets|Science|Space|Space and Time|Space Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Medicine;
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- 12mo
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
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