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[SPACE FLIGHT PIONEER]. GAIL, Otto Willi (1896-1956). Mit R...
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[SPACE FLIGHT PIONEER]. GAIL, Otto Willi (1896-1956). Mit Raketenkraft ins Weltenall. Vom Feurwagen Zum Raumschiff [?With Rockets into Space. From Firetrucks to Spaceships"]. Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns, [1928]. 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and several black and white photographic plates. [18], [4, ads] pp. Publisher's beige cloth backstrip over pictorial boards, spine lettered in black (binding somewhat worn, soiled, some occasional toning in text, small catalog description affixed to fp., previous owner's signature (?Wolfgang") on ffep). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE EARLY BOOK ON ROCKETRY AND RELATES THE STORY OF THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE ROCKETRY PROGRAM IN THE WORL. Gail was a science journalist and a popular science fiction author in Germany. This book has a section on the Opel-RAK rocket car program, which is considered to be the first large-scale rocketry program in the world.
