The Book of Flight

1954 first edition. Size tall octavo, 9.25" tall, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with white spine with blue titles, with the dust jacket, illustration on jacket matches the book cover. Book condition very good plus, slight rubbing to corners cover edges and hinges, faint spots to end-papers and first and last few pages otherwise very clean throughout. Dust jacked condition very good, rubbing to folds, rubbing and slight crease/chip to corners and spine ends, gift inscription on front inner flap of jacket, price has been clipped. Lovely illustrations by King-Ganteaume and frontispiece by D. Lovern West of what he thinks Space Flight in the future will look like.