8vo. Photographic frontispiece, plates and diagrams in text. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket (some toning to spine panel, flap folds and edges, a little wear to extremities).

 

FIRST EDITION of this posthumously printed collection of Goddard's important papers on rocketry: "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" and "Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development,” previously published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1919 and 1936, respectively. This work also contains a new foreword by Goddard prepared shortly before his death in August 1945. With an American Rocket Society membership flyer laid in.