first edition Hardcover
1953 · New York
by Leonard, Jonathan Norton
New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. An attractive first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket with some rubbing along edges. Black binding with silver lettering and design; This book was written at the beginning of the space age, before Sputnik, but during the rocket test trials in White Sands, New Mexico. Leonard, the science editor of Time Magazine, separates the facts of space flight from the theories and fictions from a 1953 perspective; 8vo . (Inventory #: 15049)