144pp, 260g. Black and white photographs, diagrams, illustrations, bibliography, mathematical appendix, index; dark blue boards, usual library marks and cancellations. Boards have wear on lower edge, wear to head and heel of spine, tape stains on boards and spine. Price clipped dustjacket has tape ghosts, wear on edges, creases along spine, accession number in white ink on spine. Second edition, from the blurb: "this well-known work...has now been brought fully up to date in the light of recent achievements, including man accurately predicted by the author. The approach throughout is from the astronomical rather than the engineering point of view."

Astronautics, Interplanetary Flight, Space Travel, Arthur C Clarke