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ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE : DAWN OF INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL

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Title: ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE : DAWN OF INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL

Author: P.E. CLEATOR (Founder of British Interplanetary Society)

Publishing Info: Simon & Schuster

Edition: First Edition

Publishing Date: 1936

Additional Information: Early book on development of Rocketry for the purpose of transporting people to other planets in the Solar System and Beyond. To go where others cease to go in the hope of finding life in the Universe and bearing Peace from the People of Earth. wait what?

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black cloth some fading and old spotting. Silver foil spine Label intact and still readable but has some rubbing. Paper over rear hinge worn for maybe inch and half but cloth hinges holding well. Pages clean. Good + condition. No DJ. Rare early significant study of Rocketry.