Description

Hardcover, quarto sized bound in blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s boldly illustrated dust-jacket. 128 pages. Illustrated with 150 color photographs depicting both real and imagined space-flight, from 17th century engraving of Cyrano de Bergerac to scenes from cinematic classics like Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as rare photographs from early rocket experimentation to images of futuristic NASA spaceship designs. First British edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy in very nice, complete and unclipped, dust-jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.