Across the Space Frontier

New York: Viking Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edited by Cornelius Ryan with contributions from Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, Dr. Joseph Kaplan, Dr. Heinz Haber, and Oscar Schacter. With full-color illustrations by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman, and Rolf Klep. Very Good in a Good dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally soiled, bumped and with some chips and tape repairs at the top edge. Green cloth, unevenly toned, with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the half-title, clean otherwise. Advertised as "an accurate blueprint, prepared by some of the best scientific minds in the country, of how man can, within the short period of ten to fifteen years, reach beyond the atmosphere and establish a space station.