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The Rocket Team
by Ordway, Frederick I.; Sharpe, Mitchell R
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1894959000
- ISBN 13
- 9781894959001
- Seller
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Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Burlington, ON: Apogee Books, 2003. Hardback. Original cream cloth with gold lettering to spine and front. Quarto. 324 pages. 32 pages of b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Wernher Von Braun. Number 36 in the Apogee Space Books series. Attached to the inside of the rear board is a double-sided DVD "featuring nearly five hours of rare footage of the Rocket Team's extraordinary legacy". This includes colour film of V2 launches and a documentary on the Able-Baker space monkeys. Good in Good jacket. Page edges a bit tanned; a tiny spot on the top edge. Jacket has a little wear at the corners and rubbing on its faces.
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- Bookseller
- Alex Richardson
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1849
- Title
- The Rocket Team
- Author
- Ordway, Frederick I.; Sharpe, Mitchell R
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1894959000
- ISBN 13
- 9781894959001
- Publisher
- Apogee Books
- Place of Publication
- Burlington, ON
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- Quarto
- LCCN
- 2007310408
- Keywords
- Space, Outer, Spaceflight, Flight, Missiles, Astronautics, US, American, NASA, German, Germany, Nazi, Science, Technology, Nazi, Rockets, Rocketry, Second, World War, Two, II, Military
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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About the Seller
Alex Richardson
Biblio member since 2021
Sandy, Bedfordshire
About Alex Richardson
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