- Year
- 1935
- By
- Kessler, F. W.
- Published
- Brooklyn, NY: Kessler.
- Edition
- English. First edition, stiff wraps.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- R6, L2
- Catalog
- Catalog A · Early Pioneers
Dedicated to Friedrich Schmiedl, "the first man in the World to successfully fly Mail by Rockets," the booklet opens with a plain-language explainer of rocket propulsion before surveying the field's pioneers — Goddard, Oberth, Pendray, Willy Ley, Esnault-Pelterie, Gerhard Zucker, and the fatally injured Max Valier — and closes with a reproduced 14 December 1934 General Post Office letter granting semi-official status to the Isle of Wight mail-rocket experiment, ahead of the full stamp-and-cover listing.
Two exemplars, one with the original mailing envelope Kessler used to send a copy to fellow collector J. L. Wollheim.