( 220 ) The Call of the Cosmos - K. E. Tsiolkovsky

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K. E. Tsiolkovsky

The founding father of astronautics, in the definitive English collection of his writings. Eleven works of science fiction and scientific essays — On the Moon, Dreams of Earth and Sky, On Vesta, Outside the Earth, The Aims of Astronautics, Living Beings in the Cosmos, Island of Ether, Beyond the Earth's Atmosphere — followed by three supplements, the last reproducing facsimile pages from Tsiolkovsky's own handwritten notebook, with his sketches of the bow-shaped gun and his gravity experiments: the earliest drafts of his monograph Free Space.

• Title: The Call of the Cosmos

• Author: Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)

• Translation edited by: V. Dutt

• Translators: A. Shkarovsky, D. Myshne, V. Talmy, X. Danko

• Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 21 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

• Date: undated; foreword dated Moscow, October 1960

• Pages: 471 pp + 12 pages of plates

• Size: 21 x 14 cm (Octavo)

• Binding: original publisher's cloth, teal green, silver lettering to the front board with facsimile signature, black title label to spine

• Frontispiece: portrait of Tsiolkovsky, photographed by V. V. Assonov, 1920

• Condition: clean, bright text block, free of markings; sound sewing; mottling and staining to the cloth; two faint circular stamps and light foxing to the final leaf; no dust jacket

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