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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Caidin, Martin. Destination Mars. Garden City NY: Doubleday 1972 1st ed. 295 p. A distinct book, not an ealier edition of Caidin's 1997 book.
Collins, Michael. Mission to Mars: an Astronaut's Vision of Our Future in Space. New York: Grove,Weidenfeld 1990. 1st edition. 307 p. An Apollo astronaut suggests Mars mission plans and concepts.
Joels, Kerry Mark. The Mars One Crew Manual. New York: Ballantine 1985 1st edition. 182 p. Softcover. A popular detailed, though hypothetical, look at the first manned mission to Mars.
Levitt, I.M. A Space Traveler’s Guide to Mars. New York: Henry Holt 1956 1st edition. 175 pgs. There was at least one other printing, in 1958.
Levitt, I.M. A Space Traveler’s Guide to Mars. London: Gollancz 1957 1st UK edition. 172 pgs.
Ley, Willy and Werner von Braun. Project Mars - a Master Blueprint for Mans First Exploration Trip to Mars London: Badger 1961 1st paperback edition of Exploration of Mars, with black and white illustrations only it seems.
Ley, Willy and Werner von Braun. The Exploration of Mars. London: Sidgewick and Jackson 1956 1st edition. 184 p. Has good bibliography of books. Color illus. and 5 b&w illus. by Chesley Bonestell, perhaps the best known illustrator of Mars.
Ley, Willy and Werner von Braun. The Exploration of Mars. New York: Viking 1956 1st U.S. ed. 176 p. Has good bibliography of books. Color illus. and 5 b&w illus. by Chesley Bonestell, perhaps the best known illustrator of Mars. Has image of rocket leaving the orbit of a planet etched into the front of the binding.
Matsunaga, Spark M. The Mars Project: Journey’s Beyond the Cold War. New York: Hill and Wang 1986 1st edition. Written by the late U.S. Senator from Hawaii. Calls for a joint US-Soviet mission by the end of the century.
Miles, Frank and Nicholas Booth. Race to Mars: The Harper & Row Mars Flight Atlas. New York: Harper & Row 1988 1st edition.
Miles, Frank and Nicholas Booth. Race to Mars: The Harper & Row Mars Flight Atlas. London: Macmillan 1988 1st UK edition.
Miles, Frank and Nicholas Booth. Race to Mars: The Harper & Row Mars Flight Atlas. Toronto: Harper Collins 1988 1st Canadian edition.
O'Leary, Brian. Mars 1999: Exclusive Preview of the U.S.-Soviet Manned Mission. Harrisburg: Stackpole Books 1987 1st edition. 160 p.
Oberg, James E. Mission to Mars: Plans and Concepts for the First manned landing. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole 1982 1st edition. 221 p. Fairly good bibliography for a popular title.
Portree, David S. F. Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning 1950 - 2000. Washington D.C.: NASA 2001 1st edition. 152 p. Illus. NASA SP 2001-4521. Monographs in Aerospace History #21. aAdetailed inside look at NASA planning for manned Mars Misions. Very good bibliography.
Reiber, Duke B. ed. The NASA Mars Conference. San Diego: Univelt 1988 1st edition. 535 p. the 21-23 July 1986 conference at the National Academy of Sciences, sponsored by NASA and the American Astronautical Society. AAS Sciecne and Technology Series, vol. 71.
Richardson, Robert Shirley. Exploring Mars. New York: McGraw Hill 1954 1st edition. 256 p. Went through multiple printings.
Stoker, Carol and Carter Emmarteds. Strategies for Mars: A Guide to Human Exploration. San Diego: American Astronomical Society, Univelt 1996 1st edition. (xxiv) 619 p. AAS Science and Technology Series vol. 86 .
von Braun, Wernher. The Mars Project. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois 1953 1st edition. 91 p. Based on Das Marsprojekt, a special issue of the magazine Weltraumfahrt, 1952. A softover was published in 1962.

 

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