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3 volumes and 7 ephemeral items. The group Includes a 1983 book about Bonestell’s art; the famous 1952 book on Space flight by Wernher von Braun et al with Bonestell’s speculative illustrations which also includes a tipped-in photograph of Bonestell, late in life, holding the illustrations on the book’s jacket.; a leaflet with Bonestell’s 1933 Golden Gate Bridge illustration, and five magazines and one book of Bonestell art before and after Sputnik. The October 1947 magazine had Bonestell’s first front cover art for a Science Fiction magazine, which he would continue to produce for the next 20+ years. Durant III, Frederick C., and Ron Miller. Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell Donning, Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1983. 133 pp. Illustrated in color. Original wrappers. Kaplan, Joseph, Wernher von Braun, et al. Across the Space Frontier. New York: Viking, 1952. Pictorial dust jacket and other illustrations by Chesley Bonestell Richardson, Robert S. Man and the Moon, 1961. Text illustrations by Chesley Bonestell Pictorial dust jacket. The Golden Gate Bridge / History & Principal Characteristics. San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, 1933. Unpaginated booklet. Two imaginative monochrome illustrations by Bonestell, one on the front cove. 4x8½”. (Cover a bit soiled) Mechanix Illustrated, July 1947: 7 color illustrations by Bonestell of a “Trip to Mars”. Air Trails and Science Frontiers, September 1947. Color front cover illustration by Bonestell for “Fortress in the Sky” by B.A.Northrop, pseudonym of L. Ron Hubbard. Astounding Science Fiction, October 1947. Front cover by Bonestell. 3 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, (December 1950, March 1953 and September 1969) with Bonestell front cover illustrations