Space Exploration Book and Auction Catalogue, with Prefaces by Hermann Oberth and Frederick Ordway Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1977-1998 Description: 2 volumes: Alicke, Walter, compiler. The Moon In Science & Fiction, Or How Man Reached Outer Space, Catalogue 270. Vaduz, Switzerland: Interlibrum, 1977. 368 items, unnumbered pages. Preface, in German, by Hermann Oberth. Original wrappers with pictorial front cover. Rocketry and Space Flight: Fiction into Fact, the Frederick I. Ordway III Collection of Books and Prints. Auction Catalog. New York: Swann Galleries, April 20, 1998. 300 lots + 4pg. Bibliography of References. Pictorial wrappers. The Interlibrum catalog, though it includes rare works of early science fiction, was the first major catalogue issued by an antiquarian book firm to offer non-fiction space flight items. They ranged from 19th century astronomical classics to the pioneer quartet - Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard and Esnault-Pelterie - to Von Braun and Apollo 11. The 1998 catalog was the first auction of non-fiction space exploration. It included a 6-page preface "Collecting Literature in the Space and Rocket Fields" by Frederick I. Ordway III, former President of the American Rocket Society and biographer of Werhner Von Braun. It listed the Interlibrum catalog as a bibliographic reference. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 319527
Space Exploration Book and Auction Catalogue, with Prefaces by Hermann Oberth and Frederick Ordway Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1977-1998 Description: 2 volumes: Alicke, Walter, compiler. The Moon In Science & Fiction, Or How Man Reached Outer Space, Catalogue 270. Vaduz, Switzerland: Interlibrum, 1977. 368 items, unnumbered pages. Preface, in German, by Hermann Oberth. Original wrappers with pictorial front cover. Rocketry and Space Flight: Fiction into Fact, the Frederick I. Ordway III Collection of Books and Prints. Auction Catalog. New York: Swann Galleries, April 20, 1998. 300 lots + 4pg. Bibliography of References. Pictorial wrappers. The Interlibrum catalog, though it includes rare works of early science fiction, was the first major catalogue issued by an antiquarian book firm to offer non-fiction space flight items. They ranged from 19th century astronomical classics to the pioneer quartet - Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard and Esnault-Pelterie - to Von Braun and Apollo 11. The 1998 catalog was the first auction of non-fiction space exploration. It included a 6-page preface "Collecting Literature in the Space and Rocket Fields" by Frederick I. Ordway III, former President of the American Rocket Society and biographer of Werhner Von Braun. It listed the Interlibrum catalog as a bibliographic reference. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 319527
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