The Exploration of Space

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Overview:

Title: The Exploration of Space
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Year: 1951
Publisher: Temple Press
Price: 12/6
Pages: xiii+198
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Non-fiction
Title Reference: The Exploration of Space
Notes:
• On the title page Clarke is described as ''B.Sc., F.R.A.S. / Chairman, British Interplanetary Society'' • Preface by the author [xi-xiii] signed ''London. May 1951.'' • Illustrated with frontispiece in colour and 14 plates (3 in colour). Most of them (I-V, IX, XI-XII, and the frontispiece) are drawings by Leslie Carr and/or R. A. Smith. • 18 figures in the text. Enlarged versions of the first and the last figure reprinted on the front and back endpapers, respectively. • Includes index. • Separated into the same 18 chapters as the Revised Edition (1959). • Illustration on the cover identical with Plate XIII by Leslie Carr.