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Oregon: Billville Press, 1997. Hardcover. Good/fair. Signed and inscribed on the front free-endpaper by the author, "To Jack Hogan From Matt. Best regards Bill Robinet." Blue cloth hardcover in dustjacket, no indication of printing. A good-only copy with bumps to the corners, two pages ruffled and a spot that opens a bit too widely just after the photo section. Binding still seems solid, but not tight. The dustjacket is not as good with scuffing and fading to the panels, and short tears and crinkling to the edges. 364 pp., photos at center, short glossary at rear. Stories and anecdotes from Robinet's life as an agricultural cropduster.

Moscow: Nauka / Наука, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Tan flexi-bound hardcover first edition. Text in Russian. A good only copy of this scarce publication from the USSR on lunar soil samples. Minor musty smell. Corners heavily bumped and soil to the front cover and the text block edges. Flexible binding is solid and pages are firmly bound in. Interior appears to be unmarked. Bumping to the lower corners of the pages. One miscut page is creased toward the final gathering of the book. Filled with charts, graphs and some black and white photos. 708 pp., title page in English and Russian, but the text is solely in Russian. Hard to find in any condition.