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MikeC
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posted 04-27-2025 02:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MikeC   Click Here to Email MikeC     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Postpaid for US addresses. Will entertain offers.
  • Alway, Peter, Retro Rockets – Experimental Rockets, 1926-1941 (Saturn Press, 1996). Fine hardcover. $40

  • Alway, Peter, Rockets of the World – Second Edition (Saturn Press, 1995). Fine hardcover. $75

  • Alway, Peter, Rockets of the World – Third Edition (Saturn Press, 1999). Fine hardcover. $75

  • Baker, David, The Rocket – The Development of Rocket & Missile Technology (NY: Crown, 1978). VG hardcover in VG dustjacket, some scrapes to bottom edge of front cover. $75

  • Baker, David, Spaceflight and Rocketry – A Chronology (NY: Facts On File, 1996). Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket. $25

  • Bowman, Norman, The Handbook of Rockets and Guided Missiles – Second Edition (Perastadion Press, 1963). VG hardcover with minor exterior spotting. $45

  • Burgess, Eric, Rocket Propulsion (London: Chapman & Hall, 1954). VG hardcover with VG dustjacket, second edition. $25

  • Chapman, Atlas – The Story of a Missile (Harper, 1960). VG+ hardcover in VG+ dustjacket. $90

  • David, Follin and Blitzer, The Exterior Ballistics of Rockets (Van Nostrand, 1958). VG hardcover with VG dustjacket. $80

  • Hart, Julian, The Mighty Thor – Missile in Readiness (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961). Fine hardcover in VG dustjacket. First edition. From the collection of Frederick C. Durant. $150.

  • Holder, William, Saturn V: The Moon Rocket (Messner, 1970). Fine hardcover with VG+ dustjacket. $25

  • Newell, Homer, High Altitude Rocket Research (NY: Academic Press, 1953). VG hardcover (ex-library); library number on spine; card pocket & bookplate inside covers have been neatly removed; fading to covers. $35

  • Newell, Homer, Guide to Rockets Missiles, and Satellites (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1958). VG hardcover with VG dustjacket (tears to dustjacket with small pieces missing). $35

  • Newell, Homer, Sounding Rockets (McGraw-Hill, 1959). VG+ hardcover with VG dustjacket. Previous owners’ names inscribed ifc. $150

  • Peck, Taylor, Round-Shot to Rockets: A History of the Washington Navy Yard and the United States Gun Factory (Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute, 1949). VG hardcover in VG dustjacket. $20

  • Rosen, Milton, The Viking Rocket Story (Harper, 1954). VG+ hardcover in VG dustjacket. First edition. $40

  • Sutton, George, Rocket Propulsion Elements (NY: Wiley, 1949). VG hardcover (ex-lib), Second printing, covers worn and faded, lib sticker on spine. $30

  • Wimpress, R., Internal Ballistics of Solid-Fuel Rockets. (McGraw-Hill, 1950). VG hardcover (normal scuffs and fading) with bumped corners. $25

MikeC
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