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Rockets And Space Travel: The Future Of Flight Beyond The Stratosphere Author: Ley, Willy Place: New York Publisher: Viking Date: 1947 Description: 374 pp. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs and 49 text drawings. Original cloth binding; publisher's dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Ley on front flyleaf. Nine years after he came to America from Germany as an anti-Nazi refugee, Willy Ley’s first book on Rockets was published during World War II, in early 1944, and revised and enlarged in January 1945. This edition, adds “Space Travel” to the title and 100 pages to the original text with new chapters on rockets of the Second World War (German V-1 and V-2s), and new appendices on rocket airplanes and rocket-assisted take-off, a list of Robert Goddard’s patents, rocket mail, US World War II rocket ordnance and a greatly expanded annotated bibliography. By the end of World War II, Ley was a prolific writer on space travel and broader scientific subjects. But he was frustrated by a fruitless wait for employment by the US Navy as a translator, or perhaps interrogator of “Paperclip” German scientists and engineers. Shortly before publication of this book, Ley had a reunion in Washington with the most notable Paperclip émigré – Wernher von Braun. That was the start of a long collaboration between the two men, the leading American “publicists” of the space age. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket worn with opaque orange paper pasted over the top of the biographic blurb on flap; good to very good. Item number: 319550