[LifePath]

Not sure if it’s the same book, but I have a 1959 copy of “The Rocket Handbook for Amateurs” by Lt. Col. Charles M. Parkin, Jr. This book has a forward by Wernher Von Braun, and it details building a liquid fueled rocket. My copy is signed by the author to the man who gave it to me in 1975.

Is this the book you refer to?

[Okieshooter]

The book we were discussing was published in 1960 by a Capt Brindley, but there must have been at least 3 similar books. Here is another

http://www.rocketryplanet.com/images/stories/archives/2929/a-guide-to-amateur-rocketry.pdf

[Okieshooter]

Here is a picture of my rocket club at Fort Sill in early 1958