Price clipped DJ is chipped with short tears, with light soiling. Red paper covered boards show light shelf wear to extremities. ; Stated first edition. A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Pictorial endpapers and drawings throughout by Helen S. Hamilton. This was issued by Garden City Books, a subsidiary of Doubleday. ; Line drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages; "A slender missile, fire streaming from its tail, rose majestically into the blue sky over the waters of Cape Canaveral. Suddenly it exploded into a thousand pieces, showering the ocean and beaches with debris. This was the first sight to greet the Hollisters on their arrival in Florida for a visit with their cousins, Sharon and Randy Davis. Anxious to help Uncle Walt, a rocket expert at Patrick Air Force Base, they join in the search for the rocket's nose cone, which is lost among the debris. The payload lodged in the nose cone is a very special "treasure," for on it depends the success of future laun