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198121162Santo Domingo: Editora de Santo Domingo. Near Fine. 1981. Hardcover. Text is in Spanish - translated into Spanish by Federico William Lithgow. Illustrated. A limited edition reprint of the 1949 edition. Octavo quarter-bound in brown leather with gilt lettering and gilt and orange design along spine ribbon bookmark 221 pages. Brief gift inscription on falf-title page else fine in a near fine slipcase. . Editora de Santo Domingo hardcover
1981026975REPUBLICA DOMINICANA: EDITORA DE SANTO DOMINGO. RED LEATHERETTE QUARTER BOARDS IN SLIPCASE OWNER'S BOOKPLATE. TEXT IN SPANISH TRADUCCION DR. FEDERICO WILLIAM LITHGOW. COPY #1177 OF 2050. . Fine. Hardcover. RE ISSUE. 1981. EDITORA DE SANTO DOMINGO hardcover
1960271935London: Peter Davies 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Slightly worn. 8vo. Signed by Author. pp. 280.Signed by Willie Brandt on half title page Peter Davies hardcover
191536118NY: McBride Nast & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First American Edition. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; With 8 double-page color illustrations. Bound in original half cloth with the mounted color label on front cover. Minor wear to corners. Contents clean binding firm. Condition Report: Very Good Condition . Aprox 7.5" x 10". Nice copy. . McBride Nast & Company hardcover
1978BN140527Köln Bachem 1978. 1978. Romantische Reise durch das Moseltal. Von Koblenz nach Trier. Mit Graphiken von Carl Bodmer und Texten von Johann August Klein und Christian von Stramberg. <br/><br/>Romantische Reise durch das Moseltal. Von Koblenz nach Trier. Mit Graphiken von Carl Bodmer und Texten von Johann August Klein und Christian von Stramberg. Leson Willy Hrsg. Köln, Bachem unknown
19084904C1908. In einem Band. Charlottenburg: Virgil-Verlag. 1908. ca. 22 x 15 cm. 19 33 43 38 23 28 22 29 32 28 30 29 24 28 28 30 41 Doppelband 31 23 31 35 33 23 S. Schlichter Halbleinwandeinband der Zeit. Einband etwas berieben. Ecken bestoßen. Papierbedingt gegilbt. Bindung gelockert. Entwidmeter Bibliotheksstempel auf dem Titel leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Innenerhaltung sonst gut. Sammelband mit 24 Essays über die Persönlichkeiten: Bernhard Dernberg von W. Moszkowski Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin von Hauptmann Hildebrand Fürst Bülow von E. Graf zu Reventlow Friedrich Naumann von Fritz Auer Maximilian Harden von Paul Wiegler Dr. Carl Peters von A. Lichtenstein Clemenceau von F. Friedmann Adolp L'Arronge von Walter Turszinsky Emmy Destinn & Maria Labia von Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel Thomas Alva Edison von W. Leven Graf Leo Tolstoi von W. Leven Felix Weingartner Die Leute vom Simplicissmus von Otto Flake Erstausgabe - Raabe/H.-Bode 73.2 Bertha von Suttner von A. H. Fried Hugo von Tschudi Richard Strauss von R. Batka Kaiser Franz Josef I. Doppelheft von H. Kienzl Ludwig Max Goldberger von E. Köhrer Reinhold Begas von L. Brieger-Wasservogel Kaiser Wilhelm II. von Sincerus d.i. Friedrich Koffka 1888-1951 David Jayne Hill von C. A. Bratter Prinz Emil von Schönaich-Carolath von Victor Klemperer Gustav Schmoller von R. Bahr. Mit vielen Portraitabbildungen und zahlreicher Werbung der Zeit sowie Pressestimmen. unknown
1999Q-2742713638ACTES SUD 1999-06-04. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! ACTES SUD paperback
19559420C1955. ca. 1955. ca. 145 x 19 cm. ca. 30 S. Original-Karton mit Deckeltitel. Einband etwas gebräunt sonst guter Zustand. Ausstellungsverzeichnis mit mehreren schwarzweißen Abbildungen. Eingangs mit handschriftlicher Signatur des expressionistischen Malers Willy Robert Huth. unknown
1959369106US: L.W. Singer / Western Printing 1959. L.W. Singer / Western Printing 1959 First Edition NAP Good/ Binding reinforce with light blue tape some creasing to bright glossy plasticised cover. Previous owner's stamp inside cover tight bright color illustrated pages. 48 pages. Fun! 3.3 ounces. Size: 7 7/8 x 6 x 1/8 inches. First Edition NAP. Paperback. Good. L.W. Singer / Western Printing Paperback
1947449G1694USA: Street and Smith 1947. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 126 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Stress Engineering; Jet-Assisted Takeoff; C-74 in full color; B-36; Air Power for Tomorrow; Dummies In! - Dummies Out! - wind tunnel research; The Curtiss Racers; Learn to Fly; Meet Your Equilibrium; The Inexhaustible Metal - Magnesium; Telemetering; Rocket Test Stands by Willey Ley - with photos; Li'l Cloud Sniffer; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Street and Smith Paperback
1964049422<p>New York: Viking Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover first printing with dustjacket this unique copy is signed by author Willy Ley on the title page book has moderate soiling to the outer page-edge and very mild foxing to the blank end-papers the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine the jacket has some surface-scuffing and a few short edge-tears it is clean and bright the original price 6.50 is present and a professional removable mylar cover is included features full-color paintings by Chesley Bonestell photos and diagrams and a Foreword by Wernher von Braun "In this book the famous collaborators Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley invite you to accompany them on a voyage to the strange stellar systems in the nearby regions of the galaxy"; Signed by Author .</p> Viking Press hardcover
196573094London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1965. 1st edition. Nice Copy. lge. octavo. dust jacket xix 108pp. colour & b/w plates text ills. appendix bibliog. index Foreword by Dr. Wernher von Braun; Superb colour plates by Chesney Bonestell. Very nice copy in like illustrated dust jacket with minimal edge-wear. Scarce in this condition Sidgwick & Jackson unknown
1949153A nice copy in a price-clipped jacket with minor wear at the spine. Inscribed by Ley to Nathan Weinberg dated Sept 1 1949 book publication is listed as Sept 1949 on verso of title page. No mention of later printings as was standard for Viking first printings of this period. Tissue inserts present protecting the color endpaper illustrations. Jacket in mylar protector. Very uncommon signed particularly in the month of publication. Viking hardcover
1968Q-600038663xPrentice-hall Inc 1968-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Prentice-hall Inc hardcover
193605865DIE VERSTUCHE AUF DEM GREENWOOD-SEE THE ATTEMPTS ON GREENWOOD-LAKE in DAS NEUE FAHRZEUG Vol. 3 #4 31-12-1936 first edition some tanning to the margins else a vg copy. This 3 page article takes up about 1/3 of this most fragile German publication of contemporary rocketry. Also contains NEUARTIGER PROPELLERANTRIEB FUR MOTORSCHISSE by Otto Steinitz et.al. Berlin unknown
195561012Phoenix House 1955. First Edition. Hardback. Good Hardback light edgewear page edges spotted in Good dustwrapper edgeworn chipped with small losses esp. to top of spine. Hardback in dustwrapper. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Phoenix House hardcover
193817714FILE OF LETTERS being some nearly 60 in number between science writer and German Rocket Society founder Willy Ley and esteemed international film director Fritz Lang between the years 1938 & 1952. A wonderful correspondence with all letters from Ley SIGNED full of deep personal feelings intimate revealing thoughts and mentioning in detail or in passing FRAU IN MOND Science Fiction Pulp Magazines a history of the meeting of the 2 men in the form of a letter by Lang to the Dept. of Justice Immigration Service on Ley's behalf H.P. Lovecraft David Selznick Joseph Cotten Ingrid Bergman being Lang's alibi for canceling a trip to N.Y.C. for the chance of working with her Arthur Murray WWII Hitler Goebbels Truman Bemelmans E. E. Smith the Atomic Bomb John Campbell the film SCARLET STREET and subsequent censorship in New York and the cuts that had to be made to reinstate it Arkham country Providence R.I. August Derleth Chesley Bonestell John Hersey Robert Oppenheimer Robert Heinlein DESTINATION MOON 20th Century Fox MGM Gary Cooper and the film CLOAK AND DAGGER Wernher Von Braun Forrest Ackerman L. Sprague De Camp CLASH BY NIGHT WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Robert Goddard Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard etc. An incredible archive. N.p. unknown
1965GB002PAT20MI3N00Signet 1965. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Signet paperback
1945600206New York: The Viking Press 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 3rd Printing with additional material from the first printing eight months earlier. 14 photographic Plates 46 drawings. 295 pages. Previous owner's name and date on ffep. Blue cloth red and black titles on front and spine. Black DJ. FINE/VG. <br/> <br/> The Viking Press hardcover
1947AERK00003New York: The Viking Press 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth black titles on spine viii 374 pp 4 ff b & w photo plates 49 figures bibliography index. Ex-library from a defunct institution. A 4 mm tear to head of spine else VG lightly rubbed. DJ extremities rubbed and slightly chipped; book & DJ covered with thick mylar. Willy Ley's Rockets first appeared in 1944 was greatly enlarged twice under new titles--the present work of which this is the first printing in 1947 and Rockets Missiles and Space Travel in 1951--and went through intermediate and subsequent minor revisions and expansions all on account of rapid developments in rocketry in the postwar period. Ley traces the development of rockets from early fireworks and war rockets through the 20th century experiments such as those of Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth and into the era of modern rocketry beginning with the German V-2 during the Second World War and subsequent developments. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Thus. . VG-/VG. 22 X 15 cm. The Viking Press Hardcover
1954273707United Kingdom: Chapman and Hall 1954. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback third printing octavo a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper which has faded to the spine & is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Illustrated in b&w and with b&w plates and a folding coloured atmosphere chart xii 436pp. Chapman and Hall Hardcover
195761131New York: Viking 1957. 8vo. xvi 528 pp. Numerous photo illust. text illust. Gray cloth red lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Chesley Bonestell slight chipping head of spine slight sunning still NF/VG copy. Revised edition 3rd printing of this excellent & popular overview of the early space age substantially expanded here for the first time to include the rocket developments and impacts of Sputnik and the Soviet Union space program. Viking, hardcover
195749953New York: Viking Press 1957. Revised and enlarged edition. . Hardcover. Chelsey Bonestell. Rocket development and space travel prospects. 528 pages with illustrations appendixes bibliography and index. Dust jacket illustration by Chesley Bonestell. Bookplate of George W. Earley on the front paste-down endpaper. Bound in original gray cloth with lettering in red. Near fine in very good plus bright dust jacket with several tiny tears and fade to the red lettering on the spine panel. A very handsome copy. <br/> <br/> Viking Press hardcover
195142371New York: The Viking Press 1951. First Edition. good fair. 436 illus. fold-out color chart at rear appendices notes and tables bibliography index DJ soiled worn small tears/chips. Small rough spot inside front flyleaf. The Viking Press unknown
1944060902New York: Viking 1944. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 287pp. including index; HB blue w/dark blue & red; some rub w/wear on edges & corners; small stain back cover; some light tan w/clean tight pgs. DJ black w/orange & white; rubbed w/wear on edges & corners; some tan; 3x1"chip back top edge; chips & tears. " .the first popular but thoroughly scientific account of the great interplanetary dream ever published in this country . This new edition contains additional material on robot bombing planes." illus. <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
