The Exploration of Space

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Overview:

Title: The Exploration of Space
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Year: 1955
Publisher: Temple Press
Pages: xiv+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 to the First Edition' [pages xi-xiii] signed ''London. May 1951.''
- 'Preface to the Present Edition' [pages xiii-xiv] signed ''London, May 1955.''
- Copyright page states this as the "First cheap edition published 1955".
- 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).
- Primary verifier's copy has no cover, hence no cover art/artist nor price yet stated on this publication record.