The Complete Book of Space Travel

Author: Albro T. Gaul
Illustrator: Virgil Finlay
Hardcover edition, no dust-jacket issued
Published by The World Publishing Co, Cleveland and New York, 1956.
[160 pages, Number of copies of hardcover edition not known.]

Text on title page reads: The Complete Book of Space Travel by Albro T. Gaul illustrated by Virgil Finlay and including an album of historical space travel art prepared by Sam Moskovitch.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-5287.

Back of Board

Spine

Front of Board

The Complete Book of Space Travel contains one short note on Virgil Finlay:
- 'About the illustrator', page 160, a thirteen lines piece.

The Complete Book of Space Travel contains twenty full-page and double-page illustrations by Virgil Finlay. The cover illustration can also be found on pages 30-31.

• Frontispiece (astronaut)
• Analysis of the space-crew candidate, page 13
• Man working in free fall, page 17
• Cross section of first stage of rocket-ship, pages 30-31
• Three-stage rocket ship, pages 34-35
• Space-port-sunrise, pages 40-41
• Space communications chart: radio distance at conjunction, pages 46-47
• Evolution of life, page 56
• Space station: last section about to be placed in position, pages 68-69
• Approach to the moon, pages 72-73
• Space suit, page 77
• Chart of planets, pages 80-81
• Within the Venusian atmosphere, page 86
• Martian canal, pages 92-93
• Exploding planet - the source of hte asteroids?, page 99
• Reconnaissance against the sun, page 109
• Star chart, pages 116-117
• The visitors, page 125
• Types of "saucers", pages 130-131
• Icarus, page 137.

The Complete Book of Space Travel also appeared as a hardcover edition with dust-jacket.