Des Premières Fusées au V-2.

Number 14 in Elzévir’s Collection Problèmes, published under the scientific direction of Maurice Déribéré, with the cover question “Quelles seront les utilisations pacifiques des fusées?” The title page credits Ananoff as director of the Astronautical Section of the Aéro-Clubs U.S.F., and a note states that the illustrations come from the author’s private collection. The colophon records that it was finished printing on 17 September 1947 by the Imprimeries Paul Dupont.

Rather than a study of peaceful uses alone, it is a compact chronological history of the rocket, opening with a short definition of solid- and liquid-fuel rockets and carrying a marginal year beside each event, from Congreve’s attacks on Boulogne and Copenhagen in 1806–07 through the anti-aircraft rockets of the Second World War, the Soviet “Katyusha” and the German Nebelwerfer, to the first V-2 launches. Photographic plates include Zücker’s rocket-mail rocket of 1933 and Tiling and his winged rocket. The list of Ananoff’s earlier writings on the verso of the half-title also names his Navigation Interplanétaire (1946), which is in this catalog, as is his L’Astronautique in Catalog D.