$500
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1979). 8vo, quarter navy blue cloth over yellow boards, gilt-lettered spine, photo-pictorial dust jacket, unclipped. Third printing. Signed by space scientists and aerospace engineers Frederick I. Ordway III, Dieter K. Huzel, Major General John B. Medaris, and Walter Haeussermann, members of the Von Braun Rocket Team, responsible for numerous scientific and technological advancements in the 1930s and 1940s. Von Braun is considered one of the fathers of rocket science and is remembered for his central involvement in the advancement of the Nazis' rocket development program in 1920s and 1930s Germany, particularly for the creation of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II. Light soiling to edges of boards; otherwise fine. [Together with:] Autographed letter signed ("Ruth Van Saurma"), one page, October 12, 1987 laid in. To Elisabeth Seewald, "in appreciation of your work for the cause of the German-Americans, from the Friends of the German Culture, Huntsville, Alabama."
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2014-11-05
