Nearly Neptune by Hugh Walters, 1^st Edition, 1^st Printing first published by Faber in 1969. Twelfth title from the famous Chris Godfrey UNEXA series, wherein Chris’s team meet with near disaster on the voyage to Neptune, presciently foreshadowing the Apollo 13 explosion in the real-life space programme. The dustjacket, by Leslie Wood, features a stunning and historically contemporaneous echo of the Apollo 11 Command & Service Modules in orbit around the Moon prior to the first Moon-landing, which happened in the year of this book’s first publication. Scarce and especially desirable for its connections with the two most famous missions in the Apollo programme.

 

CONDITION: Ex-library with stamps to the title page and page 71, traces of ticket pocket removal to the front pastedown, a 9cm x 1.5cm rectangle of the upper outside corner of the front endpaper snipped away and minor marks in black pen to the front endpaper, the half-title page and the copyright page. There are faint shadows on the real cloth boards at the base of the spine (removed label) and the outer edge of the front board. A few page corner creases, although the pages are in general very good. The dustjacket has not been price-clipped. Although there are a few light scuffs around the base of its spine.

 

Will be posted in bubblewrap and cardboard layers. Jacket will be protected by a clear, removable cellophane holder when delivered.