Man into Space (first printing) New Projects for Rocket and Space Travel : moon cars, space stations, electric space ships, space mirrors, etc. : Astronautics

Harper & Brothers, New York. 232 pages. First edition, first printing. Original dust jacket with $4.50 price intact on flap. Book is about fine. Bright, tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Panels, pages and endpapers are bright and clean. Uncommon dust jacket is VG with light rubbing and tiny chipping along edges with a touch of foxing to flap edges. An incredible copy of Oberth's seminal classic that serves as a forward-looking technological blueprint for the future of human spaceflight, written just before the launch of Sputnik 1 and the dawn of the Space Age. An about fine copy in VG DJ, of the classic text by the founding father of astronautics.