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Educating Rita
1981réf. 554181London: Samuel French 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Acting edition. Octavo. Small publisher's label on preliminary page and a little sunning on the wrappers near fine. Samuel French unknown books
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1948réf. 10683DREADFUL SANCTUARY in Astounding Science Fiction June though August 1948 Street & Smith first edition 3 volumes complete vg to vg copies in full color pictorial wraps. The true first printing of this novel. Also contains original contributions by Isaac Asimov John W. Campbell Judith Merril H. Beam Piper Willy Ley Charles Harness A. E. Van Vogt et.al. The true first American printing of this novel. Astounding / Street & Smith paperback books
1981réf. 554181London: Samuel French 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Acting edition. Octavo. Small publisher's label on preliminary page and a little sunning on the wrappers near fine. Samuel French unknown books
1981réf. 534451London: Samuel French 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Acting edition. Octavo. Small publisher's label on preliminary page and a little sunning on the wrappers near fine. Samuel French unknown books
réf. 27808NY: Transart Productions. 4to leaves 1-56 2-29. Mechanically reproduced leaves in soft binder. VG. Transart Productions unknown books
1988réf. 597687London: Methuen 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First hardcover edition. Ownership stamp on front fly slight bumping at the spine ends else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks and moderate wear at the spine ends. Originally published as a paperback original. Methuen hardcover books
1993réf. 363400London: Bill Kenwright Ltd 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Playscript. 70pp. Photocopied sheets clasped in blue textured wrappers with a die-cut window revealing the title. Very good with toning wear and tidemarks to the front wrappers and first page. From the 1993 Broadway production at The Music Box of this Olivier Award-winning musical directed by Bill Kenwright and Bob Tomson starring Petula Clark David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy. Signed by Shaun Cassidy Barbara Walsh and one other cast member. Bill Kenwright Ltd unknown books
1953réf. 08140MANS SURVIVAL IN SPACE in Colliers Magazine between February 28 & March 14 1953 first edition 3 volumes closed tear to rear cover of the last issue else fine in wraps. Contains a detailed look at the first space suit. Also contains TOM EDISON'S SHAGGY DOG by Vonnegut an early work. Colliers Magazine paperback books
1999réf. 254377ME: Samuel weiser INC 1999. Softcover. Good. First edition. Good in wrappers. Paper Back The front cover has some bending. Samuel weiser, INC unknown books
1954réf. 07344SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST Specific fiction Corp. 1954 first edition Volume 1 #1 fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contains contributions by Forrest Ackerman Willy Ley Olaf Stapledon A.E. Van Vogt Donald Wollheim S. Fowler Wright Jack Vance Robert Sheckley Mack Reynolds et.al. Specific fiction Corp. paperback books
1949réf. 293449Nagano Japan: Karuizawa House 1949. Pamphlet. 1 portfolio containing 1 leaf hand colored engraved illustration. Good. Untitled engraving of trees in a forest signed in pencil. Note on the back indicates this is plate no. 115 though the portfolio is stamped 117A. Willy Seiler was a German-born artist who settled in Japan in the 1930s. He taught art until the end of World War II after which he produced etchings paintings and dolls for the tourist market. Karuizawa House unknown books
1959réf. 212343New York: Basic Books 1959. Hardcover. VG: Missing the dust jacket. The book is in excellent shape with clean pages and solid binding. A red casebound book with silver text on the spine. Minimalist silver design on the front cover. xxii 361 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. "A survey of U.S.S.R. work achievements and plans for the future in the field of space flight. Translated from the Russian by the United States Air Force." Basic Books hardcover books
1957réf. 376534Germany: Verlag Willy Stamm 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 1232pp. Original vinyl thumb indexed on page edges. Text in German. Ex-library with stamps on page edges still very good. Illustrated with wonderful examples of fifties advertising. Verlag Willy Stamm) hardcover books
1994réf. 195750New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both a nice clean copy like new. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1905réf. 51305Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1905. First edition imperial 8vo pp. 2 xii 315 1; color frontispiece portrait 14 color plates128 illustrations in the text a number full-page mostly after paintings and watercolors by the author plus 1 folding plate; original beige buckram with a large color insert on the front cover; wear at the edges spine a bit soiled and slight cracking of the cloth on the rear joint; all else very good. An uncommon history of yachting in Germany with a section on The America's Cup as well as powerboats regattas and rules. F. A. Brockhaus unknown books
1947réf. 35871Neuchatel: Baconnière 1947. Paperback. Good. Small quarto. Original publisher's ivory wrappers with titling in blue to upper and spine. 112 pp. With several illustrative plates. Browned. Baconnière paperback books
1950réf. 07287THRILLING WONDER STORIES Better Publications of Canada Ltd. August 1950 first edition some modest chipping to small areas of the full color pictorial covers and spine else a bright very good to very good plus copy. Contains original contributions by Henry Kuttner As You Were; Wallace West The Weariest River; Jack Vance New Bodies for Old; L. Ron Hubbard Battling Bolto; Walt Sheldon Spacemate; Arthur C. Clarke A Walk in the Dark; Earle Bergey and Willy Ley The Round-the-World Bomber. From the collection of esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn. Better Publications of Canada, Ltd. unknown books
2001réf. 202369Woodbridge: Antique Collector's Club 2001. Hardcover. VG: New in shrinkwrap. A hardcover book with an illustrated glossy dust jacket. The title is printed in black down a white spine. Antique Collector's Club hardcover books
1944réf. 10689THE CHANGELING in Astounding Science Fiction for April 1944 Street & Smith first edition some wear to the spine else just about vg in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Clifford Simak LOBBY George O. Smith THE LONG WAY Malcolm Jameson THE BUREAUCRAT Fritz Leiber SANITY Willy Ley John W. Campbell et.al. Astounding / Street & Smith paperback books
réf. B38850-5London/New York Academy Editions/ St. Martins Press 1975. 109 1pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. London/New York (Academy Editions/ St. Martins Press), 1975. paperback books
1975réf. 376954London: Academy Editions 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. 109pp. Black and white illustrations. Very slightly cocked with faint fading else near fine. Academy Editions hardcover books
1965réf. 208220Teufen Switzerland: Verlag Arthur Niggli Ag 1965. Oblong softcover. 128 pages. Text in German. Includes contributinso by Willy Verkauf Marcel Janco Richared Huelsenback Hans Richter and others. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers with some light wear. Internally a clean copy. Verlag Arthur Niggli Ag unknown books
1939réf. 41623Melbourne: The Lee-Pratt Press 1939. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto 10 1/8 x 7 1/2". 16pp Text 12pp Plates. Original decorative wrappers. Photo-illustrated title. Official catalogue of the International Camera Pictures exhibition held in Melbourne Australia in August 1939. This catalogue features the b/w photographic reproductions of 12 of the 351 photographs submitted in competition. The featured photographs were taken by H. Cazneaux Dr. Julian Smith Quinto Albicocco A. Staunton Archer Willy Lange Yvonne Andor Angyalfi Dr. Tibor de Csorgeo G. L. Hawkins Ray Olson Grete Popper and Harold B. Herbert. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. The Lee-Pratt Press unknown books
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1953réf. 140947434New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the title page. viii 126 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in silver. Very Good with moderate wear and soiling to covers 1-3/4 inch tear to lower edge of contents page. Gift inscription dated 1984 to half-title page. Offsetting from two newspaper clippings taped to facing page likely indicating occasion of book's signing. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear and toning. Dr. Wernher von Braun was a brilliant and visionary German engineer and onetime SS Stormbahnfuerer who led the V-2 ballistic missile program during the Second World War. He convinced his colleagues to surrender themselves and their materials to the Americans after the war ignoring orders to kill themselves rather than fall into enemy hands. The Americans knew a good thing when they saw it and smuggled 118 German scientists one hundred V-2s and tons of related components and documents out of the country. To Stalin's fury the Soviets were left only with lower-level rocket scientists to press into service hindering their performance in the Space Race years later. Once in the United States von Braun spent fifteen years working for the United States Army on ballistic weapons but his true passion was space travel. He once told a group of British journalists: "The V-2 was a fine rocket. The only thing wrong with it was that it landed on the wrong planet." Frustrated with being sidelined von Braun convinced Collier's associate editor Cornelius Ryan whom he met at a symposium on space medicine in San Antonio to run a series on space travel. The magazine series provided the material for The Conquest of the Moon published in 1953 by Viking. Neil Armstrong read the book when he returned from his tour of duty in Korea and it influenced his decision to become an astronaut. Von Braun's work co-written with popular science writers and beautifully illustrated by Chesley Bonestell inspired the U.S. government as well. In 1960 President Eisenhower transferred von Braun's rocket development group from the Army to the newly established National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA separating space science from military science for the first time. Von Braun became the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and was in charge of developing the Saturn space boosters used as the launch vehicles for the Apollo Moon program. His work was essential in the competition with the Soviet Union and the former Nazi was lauded as a national hero. The Viking Press unknown books
1956réf. 140947438New York: The Viking Press 1956. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the half-title page and inscribed to a young recipient: "Your Uncle Stu has told me of your interest in rockets and satellites. Good luck. Christmas 1958." x 176 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth titled in silver on the spine blindstamped rocket design to front board. Near Fine with light soiling to covers rubbing to corners and softening to head and tail of spine. Contents lightly toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear creasing and horizontal tears to fold lines and spine and chipping at fold ends and head and tail of spine. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun a Prussian aristocrat and SS Stormbahnfuerer who was spirited to the United States after the Second World War was one of the most important rocket developers of the 20th century. His passion had always been space exploration but during the 1940s he was charged with the development of the ballistic missiles that terrorized London during the final months of the war. After surrendering to the Americans in 1945 in order to safeguard his legacy and scientific work and himself von Braun was frustrated to spend the next few years cooling his heels with fellow German scientists in Texas and Alabama. He told one of his colleagues: "We can dream about rockets and the Moon until Hell freezes over. Unless the people understand it and the man who pays the bill is behind it no dice." Von Braun wrote the book The Mars Project in order to spark public enthusiasm for his project. Eighteen publishers turned it down but von Braun had a stroke of luck when he met Cornelius Ryan associate editor of Collier's magazine at a symposium on space medicine in San Antonio. Ryan was impressed with the German engineer's vision and the magazine published eight influential features on space travel over the next two years starting March 1952 in which von Braun essentially outlined the future of NASA. Those features were expanded into the book The Conquest of the Moon in 1953 and by the time Viking published The Exploration of Mars in 1956 von Braun had become a national figure appearing on a "Tomorrowland" feature on Disney's popular television show watched by tens of millions of people. The book was co-written with his Collier's collaborators Willy Ley who had fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to become a science fiction and popular science writer in the United States and the astronomical artist Chesley Bonestell. The Christmas 1958 inscription to little Jimmy was written at the end of a momentous year for von Braun: on January 31 after years of development the satellite Explorer I was successfully launched into orbit. Americans were thrilled and The American Weekly ran von Braun's autobiography in three installments. The story was turned into the 1960 biopic I Aim at the Stars which inspired Kennedy speechwriter Mort Sahl to quip that Wernher von Braun had aimed for the stars but sometimes hit London. The Viking Press unknown books
