New York: Random House, 2003. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. 1/2 inch tear on dust jacket and book spine, gift note on free endpaper.
ix, 239 pp. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of.....
New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by Buzz Aldrin on title page without inscription, with numbered signing ticket laid in. Jacket bumped, small tear at top corner of front jacket panel.
301 pp. On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin, along with.....
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing of 50th anniversary edition. An exceptional copy.
560 pp. In Carrying the Fire, Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight.....
Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Large Hardcover.
No publisher date. No jacket.
x, 214 pp. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. CONTENTS: Introduction; Above the Atmosphere; To the Moon and Beyond; Man's Ventures Into Space; Appendix; Index.
New York: Scribner, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Remainder mark. Sticker remnant.
One of these days, warns Gordon Dillow, the Earth will be hit by a comet or asteroid of potentially catastrophic size. The only question is when. In the meantime, we need to get much better at.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition (ESTC T105929). Collated and complete. Rebound in full leather with new end sheets and significant paper restoration to front matter. Ink gift note and owner information on front flyleaf, light stains to some pages (mostly margins), a couple minor.....
London / New York / Norwalk, Connecticut: Merrell / The Easton Press, 2005. Signed Copy. Full-Leather.
Signed by Buzz Aldrin on front flyleaf, with certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. A couple tiny imperfections to page ridges, otherwise an excellent copy.
304 pp. Original full black leather.....
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, Publishers, 1885. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Front board spotted, endpapers lightly foxed. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
32 pp. A surprisingly scarce guide to the recognition of the names and positions of stars and constellations, using a method the author in his.....
New York: Back Bay Books / Little Brown and Company, 2017. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fifth printing. One inch scratch on front cover, spine and front cover corner creased.
xiii, 337 pp. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities.....
New York: Harper Row, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Top edge of jacket stained, one inch tear to top edge of rear jacket panel, top edge of rear jacket panel toned.
xii, 176 pp. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations. The greatest of all dramas - the scientific.....
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 1986. Large Softcover.
Edges slightly worn.
128 pp. This book outlines the history of the American space program and describes more than 100 official and commemorative NASA patches.
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
xvii, 222 pp. In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Minor general wear.
302 pp. This book examines historical accounts and photographs of UFOs seen over the skies of the USA up to the 1960s. The author has examined a large amount of.....
Glasgow/London: William Collins. Full-Leather.
Binder's copy. No publisher date. Boards and one gathering loose, front joint split, loss to spine head and spine base, bookplate on front endpaper.
263 pp. Full-leather with gilt decor and titles, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and 18 numbered plates. CONTENTS: An Exposition of the Problem.....
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015. Eighth Edition. Soft Cover.
Eighth edition. Rear cover lightly creased. Pages clean.
xv, 363 pp. For a generation, Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide to the night sky. Now this classic beginner's guide has been completely.....
Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977. Large Softcover.
Minor general wear.
v, 90 pp. CONTENTS: Summary of U.S. Aeronautics and Space Activities of 1977; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Department of Defense; Department of Commerce; Department of Energy; Department of Interior; Department of Transportation; Appendixes.
New York: Knopf, 1991. Small Softcover.
18th printing. Belly band included. Sticker remnant on front endpaper.
716 pp. The National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky provides a concise guided tour of the heavens, from planets in our solar system to the constellations in both the Northern and.....
. S.N., 1983. Taylor, Walter S. Print.
30 x 23 inches outside to outside. Gold frame, light blue matting, includes poems and sketches beneath the image. Signed by official NASA artist Walter S. Taylor, who painted the image from a jet during the Paris Air Show.
Laguna Hills, CA: Walter & Astrid Reynolds, 1960. Single Sheet.
Sheet stained, tear along opening of outer envelope previously mended with tape, smudges on outer envelope.
Seein' Stars: Luminous Stars, The Moon and Four Planets for the Celing of Your Den, Family Room, Bar or Bedroom. Have fun in the.....
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. Hard Cover.
U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper and his name in ink on frontispiece recto (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press Book Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Edges slightly worn.
30 pp. 30 full color postcards featuring photography from outer space.
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. Large Softcover.
Spine creased, front flyleaf toned.
Unpaginated. CONTENTS: Foreword by Michael Collins; Introduction; Editor's Note; Alphabetical Index of Awards and Trophies; Index of Awards and Trophies by Sponsoring Organizations; Addenda by Sponsoring Organizations; Personal Name Index.
Washington, D.C. United States Government Printing Office, 1946. Stapled Binding.
Pages 387-400, with 6 plates. From the Smithsonian report for 1945. A look at how Native Americans thought of the sun.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. A fine copy.
xxi, 440 pp. Updated with new research. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman.....
New York: Norton, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
384 pp. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson―one of our foremost thinkers on all things space―illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as.....