Willy ley introduction (12 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. ----------vintage paperback, Canadian printing. Many Canadian printed Pyramids of the '50s used a series of numbers that differed from the US. A 191-page science fiction anthology, reprinting 9 stories from the 1950 hardcover edition. Spine and cover creases, some pages extrude from the page block but are still attached, edgewear, a good copy. Mel Hunter (front cover) (ilustrador). …

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good to Very Good+. ----------paperback. Scuff to top right corner of front cover, edgewear, a VG+ to near fine copy. James Bama (front cover) (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. NoNE ISSUED. BLUE COVERS WITH WHITE WRITING RED SPINE PIctorial endpapers; ; pp 56. NO WRITING NO TEARING. SEE PICTURES FOR condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First printing of this edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Leonard Everett Fisher (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xxiv, 296 Pp. White Cloth Stamped In Red And Black. First American Printing Indicated. Very Near Fine In Very Near Fine Dust Jacket, Bright And Clean, No Marks. Photographs (ilustrador).

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. 1967 latest date at copyright page. Miasmic pictorial cover and spine design in hues of purple and black, moderate shelf wear, crease. Pages very good w/toning. Bind good. Presented here is a collection of articles from the German import Willy Ley who escaped from Germany in 1935. The writings first appeared in the periodical Galaxy. The articles are a rational and scientific probe of nature's unexplainable phenomena. Willy Ley, world--famous science reporter, lecturer, and original member of the German Society for Space Travel, tells of the astonishing facts and extraordinary events that have long baffled philosopher and scientist alike, such as: The strange planet at the bottom of the ocean; the mysterious cloud that destroyed a vast forest; the headless moon worms, and many other weird, astounding discoveries. Several diagrams and illustrations throughout. Ley would pass in 1969. Contents include: "Introduction by Robert M. Guinn, Editor of Galaxy magazine; Tribes of the Dinosaurs; The Man I Didn't Meet; King of the Rats; A Century of Fossil Man; Slow Lightning; The Moon Worm; The Wheels of Poseidon; Strange Planet Next Door; Forerunners of the Planetarium; The Nearly Always Useful 'Bean Curve'; The Early Days of the Metric System; Too Much Imagination; The Galactic Giants; Names in the Sky; The Secrets of Enoch; The Original Inventor of Recording Tape; The Accident that Didn't Happen; The Mystery Plant from Kyrene; and, The Observatory on the Moon." Printed in the U.S.A. 192 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint of a work originally published in 1658. Complete in 3 volumes with a new introduction by Willy Ley. The first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically before it was considered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come. Comprising: VOL 1 The History of Four-footed Beasts, Vol 2 The History of Serpents & vol 3 The Theatre of Insects. A very good set, little age yellowing to the pages, entirely clean and free of any former owner marking of any kind.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. This is the 1958 edition so the cover is different from the one shown.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers, and there is a thin strip of fading to the top spine end and also to the top two inches of the front and rear spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address ( William J. Carey) on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has edge tears, nicks, rubbed spots, small chips to the extremities (especially the top spine end) and some spots of foxing / toning to the bottom third of the rear cover. This is the first ever anthology based on a particular subject (in this case, the Conquest of Space). This anthology also includes Isaac Asimov's "Bridle and Saddle" which is a story in the Foundation universe. The contents include: Trends by Isaac Asimov, Men Against the Stars by Manly Wade Wellman, The Red Death of Mars by Robert Moore Williams, Locked Out by H. B. Fyfe, the Iron Standard by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (as Lewis Padgett) , Schedule by Harry Walton, Far Centaurus by A. E. Van Vogt, Cold Front by Hal Clement, The Plants by Murray Leinster, Competition by E. Mayne Hull, Bridle and Saddle by Isaac Asimov, and, When Shadows Fall by L. Ron Hubbard. Illustrated by Edd Cartier (ilustrador).…

First UK edition; 8vo; dampstain to the rear endpapers and blanks, marks to pages 214 and 215 and corresponding lighter marks to adjoining pages, top edge of the text block darkened and spotted; original red cloth, titles to spine in black, dampstain to the lower board, pale scuffs to the spine, a very good copy in the jacket with corresponding dampstain on the lower panel and spine panel and some rubbing, nicks, and short splits First UK edition, originally published in the US in the previous year. This collection contains eight short stories by Isaac Asimov, L. Ron Hubbard, Manly Wade Wellman, Lewis Padgett (joint pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore), A.E. van Vogt, and E. M. Hull. The introduction is by the prominent rocketry expert Willy Ley. Willy Otto Oskar Ley (1906-1969) became interested in rocketry after reading Hermann Oberth's technical work Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (1923). Aged only 19, he wrote a popularisation of the book's contents, beginning his career as a prolific author. He was one of the first members of the amateur Society for Space Travel (Verein für Raumschiffahrt) and served as a technical consultant on Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (Die Frau im Mond), the first film to depict realistic space flight. Ley was deeply opposed to Nazism and fled Germany in 1935. He settled in the United States, where his background aligned with the post-war explosion of interest in space exploration and science fiction. In addition to many one-off books and articles, he published a regular column in Galaxy Science Fiction, appeared in the 1955 Disney programme 'Man in Space', and was cited by the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration.…

First edition. Very Good book in a Fair, chipped dust jacket. Two stars to the first page. Also, four ink underlines on the copyright page, as shown.