- 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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