• Publication: The Exploration of SpacePublication Record # 421073
• Author: Arthur C. Clarke
• Date: 1955-00-00
• Publisher: Temple Press
• Pages: xiv+198
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • On the title page Clarke is described as ''B.Sc., F.R.A.S. / Chairman, British Interplanetary Society''
  • 'Preface to the First Edition' [pages xi-xiii] signed ''London. May 1951.''
  • 'Preface to the Present Edition' [pages xiii-xiv] signed ''London, May 1955.''
  • Copyright page states this as the "First cheap edition published 1955".
  • Illustrated with frontispiece in colour and 14 plates (3 in colour). Most of them (I-V, IX, XI-XII, and the frontispiece) are drawings by Leslie Carr and/or R. A. Smith.
  • 18 figures in the text. Enlarged versions of the first and the last figure reprinted on the front and back endpapers, respectively.
  • Includes index.
  • Separated into the same 18 chapters as the Revised Edition (1959).
  • Primary verifier's copy has no cover, hence no cover art/artist nor price yet stated on this publication record.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 559589227

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Preface to the First Edition (The Exploration of Space) • (1951) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• xiii • Preface to the Present Edition (The Exploration of Space) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke