Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Vol 3/2, June 1936. 9”x6”, pp 16-34. Original wrappers. VG copy. $35
Featuring articles on the Thunderstorm Census Organization (!); Cleator's “Can Rockets Escape the Earth?” (half page); Cleveland Rocket Society experiments (with photo, half page); “Airmail by Rocket?” (full page).
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Vol 3/1, February 1936, pp 1-11. Original wrappers. VG. $35
Included are reviews and notices, plus articles, including:
- Peter van Dresser, “The 1935 Research Programme of the American Rocket Society”, pp 3-6;
- Werner Brugel, “An International Bureau of Information on Rocketry” (full page);
- Cleator, Weisberger Moon”, pp 7-9
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Volume 4/1, February 1937. Original wrappers. 9”x6”, pp 2-19. VG copy. $75 (Scarce in this format.) Included are reviews and notices, plus articles, including:
- Mayer, D.W.F. “A Criticsm of 'Things to Come' “, in which Mayer takes H.G. Wells' to task for turning the occupants of his movie-adapted space gun into jelly.
- Goddard, Robert. Two-page abstract (by J.H. Edwards) from “Liquid Propellant Rocket Development”, which was published in the March 1936 issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. The almost-great classic, if only there were more details in Goddard's original paper... but there really weren't.
- Cleator, P.EL. “Rockets Through Space”, 2pp abstract by E.F. Russell.
Also:
- Abstract of “The Prize Winning Paper on Rocket Design” by Alfred Africano (4pp).
- And several other papers. .
Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society. Vol 1/9, November 1946. 9x6”, pp 47-66. Original wrappers. VG $35
Included are reviews and notices, plus articles, including:
- L.P. Shepherd, “The Problem of Interplanetary Propulsion”, pp 55-65 (including a discussion of nuclear-powered ships).
- H.E. Ross, “Air Conditioning Problems of Space Travel”, pp 47-8 (not AC but the “conditioning” of the air.
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Vol 10/5, September 1951. 9”x6”, pp 193-236. Original wrappers. Name of owner at front wrapper top, otherwise fine. $25
Included are reviews and notices, plus articles, including:
- “Astronautics at Herndon”, an exhibit of 50 years of flying, including a display of the V2, which here is referred to as the “Civilian V2”, and illustrated with a full page photo plate.
- Firsoff, V.A. “The Air of Other Worlds”, pp 197-210.
- Greenwood, S.W., “A Note on the Use of Dimensionless Parameters in Astronautics”, pp 210-212.
- Forbes, George F. “Application of the General Trajectory Equations”, pp 194-196
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