Catalog A · 1929

Die Fahrt Ins Weltall.

Ley, Willy

Dust jacket and inscribed title page of Die Fahrt Ins Weltall.
Dust jacket and inscribed title page of Die Fahrt Ins Weltall.
Year
1929
By
Ley, Willy
Published
Leipzig: Hachmeister & Thal.
Edition
German. Second edition, wraps, DJ.
Ciancone
133b.
Shelf
R3, R7
Signed
Signed by Willy Ley & N.A. Rynin
Catalog
Catalog A · Early Pioneers

This second, completely reworked edition — issued by Hachmeister & Thal as Lehrmeister-Bücherei Nr. 924–926 — is jacketed in a dust wrapper depicting a scene from Fritz Lang's 1929 film Frau im Mond, for which Hermann Oberth (also in this collection) served as scientific consultant.

It is inscribed by Ley to N.A. Rynin: "With compliments from the author, Berlin, den 5. Mai 1929," with Rynin's own name written above it in Russian. The collection holds a second, unsigned copy of the same edition in the plain numbered Lehrmeister-Bücherei wrapper, without dust jacket.

Ley went on to popularize spaceflight in the United States and later worked with von Braun.

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Ley, Willy. Die Fahrt Ins Weltall. Leipzig: Hachmeister & Thal, 1929. German. Second edition, wraps, DJ. Ciancone 133b. The Alustiza Collection, Catalog A: Early Pioneers. https://www.spacecollector.net/catalog-a/die-fahrt-ins-weltall/