The Conquest of Space by Chesley Bonestell [paintings]; Willy Ley [text] - 1950

New York: Viking Press, 1950. Good +. New York: Viking Press, 1950. Fifth Printing. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's dark blue blind-embossed cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; 160pp.; plates throughout, some in full color, color pictorial endpapers, additional charts in text. Corners rather heavily bumped with brief exposure, light fraying at spine ends, brief white soiling to rear cover, else Good and internally sound, though lacking dust jacket.

Earliest published catalog of paintings by space artist Chesley Bonestell, whose scope of influence ranged from Arthur C. Clarke to an entire generation of scientists.