Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 227 PP. "I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth." Wally Schirra Signed by Schirra on the FFEP. Original price of $16.95 on inside rear flap..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 X 7 5/8 Inches. 249 PP. First printing with illustrations from the photoplay. Author was a graduate of the US Military Aeronautics School at Berkeley and a Rhodes scholar. The first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture..... More
Washington DC: NASA, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 8 X 10 1/2 Inches. 121 PP. Original stapled wraps. The June 4, 1976 NASA summary package of what was expected of the two original VIKING Mars spacecrafts. Details the investigations and operations NASA hoped to perform. Interestingly, the projected..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 Inches. 304 PP. True first UK printing in the scarce original DJ. Signed by early female aviator Jean Batten on a slip cut from an autogaph album. Signature taped to FFEP. Batten made the first solo..... More
American Airlines, Inc. Original circa 1940's Wrigley's Chewing Gum Hand-Out from American Airlines. One piece of the original gum is still attached, although chewing not advised after some 70 years... A beautiful cross-advertising piece featuring two icons of 20th Century America, American Airlines and Wrigley's! Offsetting to rear panel. Hint..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1941. First UK Edition. Hardcover. 5 X 7 3/8 Inches. 204 PP. Original blue publisher cloth with white title stamping to spine. From the collection of former RAF Pilot Derek Mason (WWII era). His bookplate on front pastedown. Price-clipped. A very appealing copy overall..... More
Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 176 PP. Signed and inscribed by Astronaut Don Lind and his wife Kathleen directly on the FFEP ("Warm Regards to Sarah DuRee, we love your Grandparents. Choice people. From The Lind's, Don..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 176 PP. First printing stated on copyright page. Original price of $9.95 on front flap of DJ. Signed by Don Lind and Kathleen Lind directly on the FFEP. The book is accompanied..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 304 PP. Stated First Printing on the copyright page. Original price of $11.95 intact on front flap of DJ. Hint of wear to DJ edges. A very nice copy overall. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 264 PP. First printing with full and complete numberline to the "1" on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed to WWII B-17 Pilot Les Williams. Accompanied by note signed by Stearman asking Williams to..... More
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. 7 1/8 X 10 1/4 Inches. Signed and inscribed, "To the Carr Brothers - May you always fly high! Stephen B. Goddard" directly on the title-page. Sharp corners and spine. More
Columbus, OH: Mid Coast Marketing, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 339 PP. First printing signed and dated by Paul Tibbets directly under the group photograph on first page. Accompanied by official "Enola Gay" Mid Coast Marketing business card and candid photograph of Tibbets..... More
St. Paul, MN: Phalanx Publishing, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 205 PP. SIGNED TWICE BY WALLY SCHIRRA - ORIGINAL "WE SEVEN" MERCURY ASTRONAUT! Signed by all three authors to previous owner, Robert Goddard. Signed, "Welcome aboard, Robert. Your name-sake gave me a lift. Wally..... More
New York: Fiction Publications, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 4 1/8 X 5 1/2 Inches. 66 PP. Important little gossip rag from the 50's featuring the "I Joined a Girl Gang" expose as well as six-page Communist propaganda story featuring Wernher Von Braun. Following the April 12, 1961..... More
California: Publishers Group West, 1994. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4 X 12 7/8 Inches. 224 PP. Signed by Astronauts Scott Carpenter (WE SEVEN), Thomas Stafford (Gemini), Edward Gibson (Skylab 4), Charles Conrad Jr. (Gemini and Apollo), Alan Bean (Apollo) and Sally Ride (Challenger) directly on the numbered limitation bookplate..... More
Van Nuys, CA: Tiger Originals, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 3/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 362 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Signed by "Tex" Hill, R.T. Smith, Dick Rossi, Erik Shilling, Ed Rector, Charlie Bond and Kenneth Jernstedt directly on the title-page. Five of the..... More
New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 369 PP. Signed by author on title-page without inscription. Jones has added his mission, "STS 59, 68, 80, 98." Named one of the TOP FIVE books about Space by the Wall Street Journal. Original..... More