Guidance 1958 Locke Principles of Guided Missile Design Rockets Engineering HC

"The first comprehensive treatment of the basic principles of missile guidance, this new book considers every fundamental problem encountered in guiding a controlled missile reliably to its target. An essential background for work with missile guidance systems, for professional engineers, technical officers of the armed services, instructors and graduate students."

Good condition in an acceptable dust jacket. The jacket is heavily chipped, torn and creased at the edges with a tape repair to the front, various scratches and spots. The red cloth boards have a mottled appearance. There's a small, mostly erased pencil mark on the first page, and pages 511-524 are bent at the bottom corner.