Rocket Development by Robert Goddard, Used (32 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. No notes or highlights. Spot of discoloration to side of text-block. Scuffing to corners, and small crease to top right corner of front cover.

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PAPER BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. General wear: foxing, small bookplate B&W photos DATE PUBLISHED: 1961 EDITION: 222.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Prentice-Hall, 1961. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good, an ex-library copy with typical markings, and repairs to the half title page and title page. Dust jacket is very good with metallic tape reinforcements to the spine and some shelf/edgewear. A very good copy of this look at the findings of a great American scientist.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original blue gilt cloth with date on title page. The father of modern rocketry's own account of his work in developing the rocket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Softcover; 8vo; 222 pages. Blue softcovers with white titles. Rubbed around edges. Bright and clean interior. Printed on signatures with blue wraps. VG+. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover edition, 1961, in Good condition with a blue illustrated Good jacket. The book is a bit musty from storage in an observatory. Was originally owned by trailblazer Carl Clark whose name and date are printed on the front flyleaf. The edges show some shelf wear and the spine ends are crushed; otherwise, the covers are in good shape. The top edge of the text block is foxed. The binding is square and tight. The interior pages are unmarked. Jacket shows edge wear and chips. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 291pp, illus., ed. by Esther C. Goddard & G. Edward Pendray, top corner bumped, slight soiling & wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has has moderate rubbing, some scuffing on back cover, edges have light wear, corners have light wear, top of spine showing light wear, otherwise a nice looking copy, book has a nice looking cover, pages are crisp and in good shape, no major defects. A solid reading copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 291pp. Navy cloth hardback, lower corner tips slightly bumped, no DJ, owner name on front end page, photo of Goddard glued onto front end page, index, b&w photos, includes copies of two patents, Rocket Development, liquid fuel rocket research 1929-1941,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book has very mild rubbing to corners of cover, mild rubbing to edges of spine, mild rubbing to cover and spine, and mild fading of text on spine and cover. Dust jacket has mild rubbing to cover, mild rubbing to hinge at insert, mild rubbing to top and bottom edges of spine, mild chipping to top front corner of spine, mild bumping to corners of cover, mild sun-fading to spine, and an inch-and-a-half crease to the back cover. Overall this is a good copy of this book with clean pages, a bright cover, solid binding, and now mylar laminated. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG plus blue cloth octavo hardcover with gilt titles on front Board and spine. Name on front pastedown with no other names or markings to text. First edition. XX, 291pp. Photos. Index. Light to moderate general wear. NF rocket science.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: FAIR DJ. Robert H. Goddard Rocket Development Liquid Fuel Rocket Research 1929-1941. Edited by Esther C. Goddard and G. edward Pendray. Published By Prentice hall, inc in new jersey. 1961. No bookpalte. Tight and clean binding. General wear in dusk jacket. rubbed dusk jacket. Bottom and top of the dusk jacket is rip. DATE PUBLISHED: 1961 EDITION: 222.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, xx, 291 pp; illus. Original cloth. Spine lettering rubbed, else Very Good, without dust jacket.

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). Ciancone 85. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 491. Interlibrum 270 #151. Tiny spot on rear cover, a fine copy. A superb copy. Enclosed in a custom quarter green leather clamshell box with leather spine label. (#160970).

NY 1948. Illus, 9x6", cloth, 291 w/index, EX-LIBRARY, usual markings, corners badly bumped, covers well worn. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gilt lettering on blue covers. 8vo, 291pp. A Robert H. Goddard U.S. Air Mail stamp is on the title page. Spine lettering somewhat dulled.

First edition. Published as Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 95, number 3 (Publication 3381). "Includes the first public mention of Goddard's historic 1926 liquid-fueled rocket launch" -Ciancone. "Goddard worked out the theory of rocket propulsion independently.Having explored the mathematical practicality of rocketry since 1906 and the experimental workability of reaction engines in laboratory vacuum tests since 1912, Goddard began to accumulate ideas for probing beyond the Earth's stratosphere. His first two patents in 1914, for a liquid-fuel gun rocket and a multistage step rocket, let to some modest recognition and financial support from the Smithsonian Institution.With an eye toward patentability of demonstrated systems and with the aid of no more than a handful of technicians, Goddard achieved a series of workable liquid-fuel flights starting in 1926. Through the patronage of Charles A. Lindbergh, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, and the Carnegie and Smithsonian institutions, the Goddards and their small staff were able to move near Roswell, New Mexico. There, during most of the 1930s, Goddard demonstrated, despite many failures in his systematic static and flight tests, progressively more sophisticated experimental boosters and payloads, reaching speeds of 700 miles per hour and altitudes above 8000 feet in several test flights" - Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Ciancone, Literary Legacy of The Space Age: An Annotated Bibliography of Pre-1958 Books On Rocketry & Space Travel 85. Original medium brown sewn printed wrapper, lettered in black. Small private collection bookplate on inside of front wrapper (stamped "Withdrawn"), thumb tip-size spot of darkening at extreme lower edge of upper wrapper, upper fore-tip faintly bumped, otherwise fine, with the section of plates largely unopened.

8vo, pp. 10; 11 plates; original printed wrappers; ex-Hill Library, with call number on upper wrapper, and perforated stamp on title page and one text leaf, spine split and wrappers loose though present; good or better. One of the fathers of modern rocketry, "Goddard worked out the theory of rocket propulsion independently . . . Having explored the mathematical practicality of rocketry since 1906 and the experimental workability of reaction engines in laboratory vacuum tests since 1912, Goddard began to accumulate ideas for probing beyond the Earth's stratosphere. His first two patents in 1914, for a liquid-fuel gun rocket and a multistage step rocket, led to some modest recognition and financial support from the Smithsonian Institution. Goddard achieved a series of workable liquid-fuel flights starting in 1926. "Through the patronage of Charles A. Lindbergh, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, and the Carnegie and Smithsonian Institutions, the Goddards and their small staff were able to move near Roswell, New Mexico. There, during most of the 1930s, Goddard demonstrated, despite many failures in his systematic static and flight tests, progressively more sophisticated experimental boosters and payloads, reaching speeds of 700 miles per hour and altitudes above 8000 feet in several test flights." This is the second and final monograph by Goddard on the subject of rocket propulsion. The first was published 1919.

First edition. First edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 95, Number 3. 11 plates on 6 leaves. [2], 10 pp. 8vo. An important marker in the development of rocketry and space flight, the pamphlet sums up Goddard's pioneering work in rocketry over the previous two decades. On March 16, 1926 Goddard launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket, from a site near Auburn, Massachusetts, and he would continue to develop the technology for the rest of his life. He held over 200 patents relating to rocketry and space flight, and in honor of his contributions NASA named its first space-flight center after him. The pamphlet was produced in part as a report back to the Smithsonian, who had begun contributing financially to his research beginning in 1915. Original side-stitched printed wrappers; partially unopened. Minor shelfwear, but fine Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 95, Number 3. 11 plates on 6 leaves. [2], 10 pp. 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan string-bound wraps printed in black. Very Good with toning and general wear. Eagle stamp on circular paper adhered to title page. In March of 1926, Goddard launched the world's first liquid-propelled rocket in Auburn, MA, with a small group of witnessed including his wife and several research assistants from nearby Clark University. It reached nearly 41 feet high and crashed nearly 184 feet from it's launch, smashing on impact. Goddard mostly worked independently and was highly secretively-- this is the second of only two papers he published on rocketry, though his impact was immense. Goddard theories and work anticipated many of the developments that made space-flight possible, and he is considered one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry.