The Complete Book of Space Travel

Author: Albro T. Gaul
Illustrator: Virgil Finlay
Hardcover edition with dust-jacket.
Published by The World Publishing Co, Cleveland and New York, 1956.
[160 pages, Number of copies not known.]

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-5287.

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.

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The Complete Book of Space Travel contains two short notes on Virgil Finlay:
- 'About the illustrator', page 160, a thirteen lines piece,
- 'Virgil Finlay', a fourteen lines blurb on the inside back flap.

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.