Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8 5/8 X 11 1/4 Inches. 143 [1] PP. First printing copy with no additional copyright dates mentioned. Original price of $4.00 intact on front flap. PO name and date on the half title-page. Original blue cloth binding remains clean and..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1908. First Edition. Original wraps. 9 X 12 Inches. "SECRET OF THE WRIGHT AIR-SHIP" - Page 861 Important early 1908 complete issue of "The Literary Digest" featuring one of the few illustrated covers by J.C. Leyendecker. Includes the all-important four-page spread on the Wright Brothers..... More
Washington DC: United States Air Force, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. Original 2008 Air Force "Thunderbird" program with original pilot trading card pages intact. Eleven of the twelve F-16 Thunderbird pilots have signed their card in this show souvenir album. Autographs includes: Lt. Col Greg Thomas, Maj. Chris..... More
![Item #9078 Shadows of Medusa [SIGNED 1ST]. Brian ENKE](https://backintimerarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9078.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771021338)
Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 5 7/8 X 9 Inches. 525 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Signed to NASA Apollo Program employee, Dr. Paul Volz. Original self-published first printing of this book that fictionalizes the first manned mission to Mars. Paul..... More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA History Division, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 5/8 X 11 1/4 Inches. 294 PP. A compilation of papers, speeches and photographs that were included in the 2004 NASA Administrator's Symposium at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA [September 26-29, 2004]..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Chesley Bonestell. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/4 X 11 Inches. 147 PP. “Across the Space Frontier,” is a landmark anthology that gathered the most forward-thinking aerospace experts of its day—including Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, and Heinz Haber—to outline technically credible visions..... More
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Original Typed Letter Signed, 1982. One page, 8" x 10.5", February 26, 1982. Apollo Astronaut Don Eisele writes a personal and detailed letter to his friend Deke Slayton upon his retirement from NASA. In part: "I wanted to write and say "Congratulations" on completing one of the..... More
![Item #8823 June 26, 1963 Typed Letter Signed [RE: Military Use of Astronauts]. Donald "Deke" SLAYTON](https://backintimerarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8823.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763665245)
Houston, TX: Original Typed Letter Signed, 1963. One page, NASA letterhead, 8" x 10.5", June 26, 1963. Just over a year after his grounding as an Astronaut and his assumption of the "Senior Manager of the Astronaut Office", Slayton writes to retired Lt. Colonel R.W. Hubble in reference to the..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Early Edition. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 279 PP. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GORDON COOPER TO FILMMAKER MICHAEL LENNICK directly on the title-page. One of the original "We Seven" Mercury Astronauts. A second printing copy with number line to the "2" on the copyright..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 Inches. 320 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $30.00 intact on front flap. Signed by McCullough directly on the limitation page. One of..... More
New York: Forge Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 301 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $25.95 intact on front flap. Signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin to filmmaker Michael Lennick directly on..... More
New York: Dutton, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 3/8 Inches. 371 PP. First printing with complete number to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $25.95 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed by Kraft to Astronaut and EVA specialist Arne Fugelang. Signed..... More
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 453 PP. First printing of this history of of the early NASA missions that culmintated with the success of Apollo 11 in 1969. An interesting copy with four SIGNED personal business cards..... More
Concord, NH: Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, 1994. First Edition. Original wraps. 7 X 9 7/8 Inches. "Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine..." - James Earl Jones Original stapled 8-page program signed by James Earl Jones, the featured guest and recipient of the Icefield..... More
Houston, TX: Original Typed Letter Signed, 1982. One page, 8" x 10.5", February 26, 1982. Cunningham writes a personal and detailed letter to his friend Deke Slayton upon his retirement from NASA. In part: "You came first, you stayed longer and you contributed more than any of the rest of..... More
Dayton, Ohio: United States Army Air Service, 1923. First Edition. Original wraps. 5 7/8 x 9 Inches. 34 PP. Original stapled wraps. Scarce original manual for the "Nelson" machine gun from one of the first US army air bases in America. McCook Field was the early Dayton, OH predecessor to..... More
Various: Philosophical Library; et al. First Edition. Original wraps. "I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public." - Edgar..... More
Las Cruces, NM: Privately Printed, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2 X 11 1/8 Inches. 156 PP. Original blue buckram boards with silver title stamping to cover. Signed by Lowell Randall and Joe Gold. Randall was an early jet propulsion pioneer and a member of Robert Goddard's team. His work..... More
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 301 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $6.95 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed by Clarke to Frank Winter, former Curator of Rocketry of the National Air and Space Museum..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 4 3/4 X 7 1/4 Inches. 256 PP. First printing copy with early coverage of the Astronauts and craft that comprised the Mercury team. Original price clipped from lower corner of jacket flap. Nearly a hundred pages of color illustrations. A very attractive..... More
South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 324 PP. First printing with original UK 25 and US $39.95 price intact on front flap. A tremendous reference including descriptions of the aircraft used as well as the pilots who flew them. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1989. First Edition. Original wraps. 8 1/4 X 10 3/4 Inches. 112 PP. Original June/July 1989 issue of Air & Space magazine. Special 20th Anniversary of Apollo 11 issue with the scarce wraparound advertising band intact! More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. 5 7/8 X 9 Inches. 446 PP. "This second edition takes account of the important changes that have swept the field since the end of the Cold War, including the rapid growth and change in commercial space-launch services, increasingly important issues of..... More
Murfreesboro, TN: Your Space Press, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 464 PP. First printing copy signed and inscribed on the half title-page by Astronaut Rhea Seddon. Seddon is a veteran of three NASA missions and was among the first six women recruited by..... More
New York: Knopf, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2 Inches. 387 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $29.95 intact on front flap. One of an unknown number of copies signed on the blank page at the time of publishing and..... More