THE HOME PLANET
de Kevin Kelley, Rusty L. Scwickart, Jacques Yves-Costeau
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[RUSSELL L. SCHWEICKART], KEVIN W. KELLEY (EDITOR), JACQUES YVES-COSTEAU. THE HOME PLANET. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading MA., 1988. First Edition. Condition: Near Fine / Very Good. In publisher's original black cloth with titles stamped in grey on front cover and spine. Appears unread, pages are clean and binding tight. Dust jacket is unclipped, trivial one centimeter closed tear at upper top left of jacket with light edge wear to extremities. Scarce autograph and inscription opposite title page from Apollo 9 astronaut Russell "Rusty" L. Schweickart to the founder of Lotus software Mitch Kapor; "To Mitch Kapor - It's great to float through space with you! Rusty Scwickart." Dated "January 16, 2007". In addition, tipped into first endpaper nearly 40 original autographs from The Association of Space Explorers, world famous astronauts and cosmonauts including; Scott Carpenter (Mercury 7), Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), John Fabian (STS-7), Donald Peterson (STS-6), Patrick Baudy (STS-51-G), John-David Bartoe (STS-51-F), Stuart Roosa (Apollo 14), Taylor Wang (STS-51-B), Wubbo Ockels (STS-61-A), Bob Overmyer (STS-5), Rusty L. Schweickart (Apollo 9), cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya and many more. There wereapx. 222 copies of this book with the tipped in sheet of autographs usually ranging from about 30-40 astronauts. Of those, very few were additionally signed and inscribed by Rusty L. Schweikart, as of this writing this is the only known copy for sale on the market with Rusty's personal inscription. All autographs are hand-signed originals, autographs are not facsimiles, not reprints and not from a mechanical autopen.147 photo illustrations. Extremely rare historical space exploration book with nearly 40 astronaut signatures, signed and inscribed association copy, highly collectible. Unpaginated. 4to.
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- Librería
- Astro Trader Books (US)
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- 1000-220
- Título
- THE HOME PLANET
- Autor
- Kevin Kelley, Rusty L. Scwickart, Jacques Yves-Costeau
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- 1
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- First Edition
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- Addison-Wesley Publishing
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- Reading , MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1988
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Kevin Kelley, Rusty L. Scwickart, Jacques Yves-Costeau, Scott Carpenter, Walter Cunningham
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Scientific, Travel and Explorational;
- Size
- 4to
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Tipped In
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- Spine
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