In the search for copies of LIFE's seminal MAN AND SPACE book from around the world, blog reader and supercollector Paul Vreede has kindly sent these scans of the French edition. As always the Ed Valigursky paintings are a joy to behold and seeing them with French text is tres bon! It's fun to pick out key words like Booster Rocket. These non-English editions of Man and Space are about as close as we'll get to seeing SWORD in a language other than English*. More to follow on this subject from our correspondent in Finland!
Thanks for sharing these Paul. Magnifique!
* there are two SWORDish toys I can think of with non-English text on the packaging. One, not strictly SWORD or Spacex, has a picture taken straight from this book and the other is as genuine a SWORD toy as you'll get (not related to Man and Space, sorry). In fact it is the only toy I know of where the full 'Space World Organisation for Research and Development' has been translated into non-English. Answers on a postcard!
Wonderful to see these!
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