Durant frederick c iii (9 Ergebnisse)

Booklet. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Perfect bound in white and blue card cover showing some discoloration and edge wear but a terrific copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Unclipped: poor. First printing; 276 p., clean and unmarked on strong unaged paper; photos and ill.; binding firm; clean unfaded black boards with still bright silver gilt lettering have minimalw ear; glossy photographic d.j. has several tears, most closed with attempts to mend with clear tape, one small open tear. 11-1/2" x 9". Extra postage.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 430 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly soiled. Bound in white card covers with black and white titles. Lightly worn around the edges with small creases. Light stains on the spine. SCARCE. VG/- -. Book.…

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good Minus dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderately edgeworn, otherwise is clean and intact, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75" - 12.75" tall); 3.5 lbs; Painting illustration to jacket with title in white lettering; 2001, Paper Tiger Publishing; 256 pages; "The Art of Chesley Bonestell," by Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant III.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by editors Ron Miller and Fred Durant upon custom bookplate facing title page. "Chesley Bonestell was, without a doubt, the most influential space artist of all time. His immensely popular art was in large part responsible for sparking public enthusiasm for space exploration without which the US space program would never have left the ground. This glorious collection of over 300 illustrations covering all facets of Bonestell's art and career includes a full-length biographical commentary." - dust jacket. "Chesley's paintings had a colossal impact on my thinking about space travel." - Arthur C. Clarke. "I didn't know what other worlds looked like until I saw Bonestell's paintings of the solar system." - Carl Sagan. 256 glossy pages predominately illustrated in vibrant color. Index. List of sources. Book clean, tight, bright and unmarked with moderate external wear. Slight lean to spine. Light wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A special copy of this, the definitive book on Bonestell's art. 31 x 24cm. 1.6kg.; Color Illustrations; 4to; Signed by Editors. Illustrated by Bonestell, Chesley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Quarto, xi, 244 pages. In Good condition. Spine is brown with black print. Boards "bound in handcrafted mission leather" title page, illustration on front panel; wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has speckled edges; peripheral toning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w and color. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in column ND-QC. 1402527. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Wraps. Zustand: Good. vi, [2], 307, [1] pages. A Bibliographical Note. Formulae. Illustrations. Notes. References. Tabular Data. Index. Sticker residue on the back cover. Some cover wear and soiling. This is Smithsonian Annals of Flight Number 10 (Final Number in Series). Among the topics and individuals addressed are: NASA, Space Exploration, Jet Propulsion, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Rocket, Propellant, Multistage Rocket, Robert Goddard, Giulio Costanzi, Astrodynamics, Vladimir Mandl, Gas Dynamics Laboratory, GALCIT, Hermann Oberth, Ludvik Ocenasek, Ramjet, Korolyev, Wilhelm Unge, Spacecraft, Annapolis Rocker Motor. Frederick Clark Durant III (December 31, 1916- October 21, 2015) was an American author, naval test pilot, chemical engineer, and expert in rocketry and spaceflight. Durant served as a "key advisor" to U.S. military, intelligence, and space-flight programs, playing a central role in Project Orbiter, the first US satellite program. In his later years, Durant served as assistant director of the National Air and Space Museum and an editor of Encyclopædia Britannica. In May 1941, Durant enlisted as a US naval aviation cadet. Durant went on to serve as naval aviator and flight instructor. In 1946, retired from the Navy at the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserves. In 1951, Durant returned to service as a test pilot, ultimately flying some 30 different types of aircraft. In 1947, Durant began work as a rocket engineer with Bell Aircraft. From 1948 to 1951, he served as Director of Engineering at the U.S. Naval Air Rocket Test Station at Dover, NJ. In 1953, he became the president of the American Rocket Society. George S. James was an American inventor. The fabric of the history of astronautics is woven of stories of individuals and small groups who developed the technologies of rocketry while dreaming of space flight. At least this was true until World War II. Since then, the complexity of guided missiles and rocket-powered aircraft has required much larger enterprises. Official recognition and financial support for such developments were difficult to obtain. Progress was made largely through the personal initiative and dedicated effort of idealists who were deeply convinced that one day man would travel through space. Because much of the detailed history of these technical developments from 1900-1939 has not been available in the published literature, the International Academy of Astronautics of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) commenced sponsorship of a series of symposia of the history of rocketry and astronautics. The first symposium was held at Belgrade in 1967. Subsequent symposia have been held at New York (1968), Mar del Plata (1969), Constance (1970), Brussels (1971), Vienna (1972), and Baku (1973). The proceedings of the first two symposia on the history of rocketry and astronautics form the contents of this volume of the series Smithsonian Annals of Flight. The combination of memoirs and papers from the first and second symposia make it possible to present in one volume new information on the work of leading investigators of astronautics and their associates in the first third of the 20th century. Thus, the student of the history of astronautics can study independent and parallel efforts which led to the Space Age. "Pre-1939 Memoirs of Astronautics" was the theme of the first IAA History of Astronautics symposium, organized with the cooperation of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, and held on Tuesday, 26 September 1967, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the XVIII Congress of the IAF. The philosophy of the organizing committee was to invite living pioneers in astronautics so that they might present memoirs. Of the 13 presentations, three were made by the men themselves: O. Lutz, F. J. Malina, and E. A. Steinhoff. The other ten authors were unable to come to Belgrade and their papers were read by other speakers. These papers appeared in Iz istorii astronavtiki i raketnoi tekhniki: Materially XVIII mezhdunarodnogo astronavticheskogo kongressa, Belgrad, 25-29 Sentyavrya 1967 [From the History of Rockets and Astronautics: Materials of the 18th International Astronautical Congress, Belgrade, 25-29 September 1967], published in Moscow in 1970. The second IAA History of Astronautics Symposium, "New Contributions to the Historical Literature on Rocket Technology and Astronautics, 1909-1939," was held on Wednesday, 16 October 1968, in conjunction with the XIX Congress of the IAF in New York. Of the 14 papers, three memoirs were presented by early investigators: R. Engel, C. D. J. Generales, and S. Herrick. For reference purposes, the papers have been arranged alphabetically by the principal author's last name. The particular symposium at which a paper was presented is indicated by either (1967) or (1968) following the author's name in the table of contents. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Book and dust jacket have minor edge and corner wear. Otherwise in great condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with illustrated DJ. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 2001. Number Line: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. 256 pages. Shelf wear on top and bottom edges of boards. Top and bottom edges of spine as well as corners bumped. Sterling price sticker on back cover of DJ. Closed tear at top of spine of DJ. Very Good condition. Binding clean and tight. Pages unmarked. Contains a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Color illustrations throughout. Front and rear endpapers are "The Exploration of Mars"(1956) by Chesley Bonestell. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please contact us with questions or if you'd like to see photographs.…