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THE HOME PLANET
by Kevin Kelley, Rusty L. Scwickart, Jacques Yves-Costeau
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[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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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-220
- Title
- THE HOME PLANET
- Author
- Kevin Kelley, Rusty L. Scwickart, Jacques Yves-Costeau
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Reading , MA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Kevin Kelley, Rusty L. Scwickart, Jacques Yves-Costeau, Scott Carpenter, Walter Cunningham
- Bookseller catalogs
- Scientific, Travel and Explorational;
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Astro Trader Books
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Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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