Conquest of the Moon.
"Throughout the ages, the nature, purpose, and movement of the moon have never ceased to fascinate man, and always he has had a yearning to reach its surface": First edition of Wernher von Braun's Conquest of the Moon
Conquest of the Moon.
VON BRAUN, Wernher; Fred L. Whipple; Willy Ley. Edited by Cornelius Ryan.
Item Number: 124884
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition of the first book to detail von Braun’s plans for a manned mission to the moon, published 16 years before the successful United States Apollo 11 mission. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Chelsey Bonestell, Fred Freeman, and Rolf Klep. Edited by Cornelius Ryan. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Based on the famous series of 1950s magazine articles in Collier's detailing Wernher von Braun's plans for manned spaceflight, Conquest of the Moon was hailed as the first authoritative, scientific book to answer the questions: How soon will we reach the moon? How will we get there? and What will scientists do when they reach the bleak, barren, wastelands of the lunar surface? Written in 1953 by the foremost scientists in the field of astronautics and embellished with detailed illustrations by Chelsey Bonestell, Fred Freeman, and Rolf Klep.
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