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Schirra’s Space

By Walter M. Schirra, Jr. with Richard N. Billings

Quinlan Press, 1988, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Wally Schirra

A frank, rough and tumble account of Wally Schirra's experiences in the space program.

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I am Eagle!

Ostensibly by Gherman Titov, but actually by Martin Caidin based on interviews from Wilfred Burchett and Anthony Purdy

Bobbs--Merrill, 1962,hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Gherman Titov

Biography of Soviet cosmonaut GhermanTitov

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Hypersonic; The Story of the North American X--15

By Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony R. Landis

Specialty Press, 2003, hardbound with leather cover and dust jacket, 200 signed copies only

SIGNED by Scott Crossfield, Bill Dana, Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis

X-15 story well told by these two experts in text and photos.

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Reaching for the Stars

By Erik Bergaust

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Erik Bergaust and Wernher von Braun

Space reporter Bergaust’s biography of von Braun.

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Moon Lander; How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module

by Thomas J. Kelly

Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001

SIGNED by Tom Kelly

Grumman Lunar Module Chief Engineer Tom Kelly's personal and informative story of the development of the Lunar Module. To our knowledge, only a few copies were signed by Kelly and distributed exclusively by Boggs SpaceBooks^®.

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At the Edge of Space; The X--15 Program

by Milton O. Thompson

Smithsonian Institute Press, 1992, hardbound with dust jacket--Foreword by Neil Armstrong.

SIGNED by Milt Thompson

Thompson’s account of his personal involvement in the X--15 program.

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The Long, Lonely Leap

by Joseph W. Kittinger with Martin Caidin

Dutton, 1961, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Joe Kittinger and Martin Caidin

An account of Kittinger’s high altitude balloon flights and Project Man High.

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Two Sides of the Moon

by David Scott and Alexei Leonov

St. Martin's Press, 2004, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by David Scott and Alexei Leonov

An entertaining and engrossing autobiography by two space travelers, a U.S. Apollo astronaut and a Soviet cosmonaut who interweave their flights and stories

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Always Another Dawn; The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot

by A. Scott Crossfield and Clay Blair, Jr.

World Publishing Company, 1960,hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Scott Crossfield

Fascinating and well told autobiography of test pilot Scott Crossfield

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Mein Leben fur die Raumfahrt

by Bernd Ruland

Burda Verlag Offenburg, 1969, hardbound with dust jacketSIGNED by Wernher von Braun. von Braun signed a few of these with an inscription to a friend or associate in the space program, particularly to original members of the von Braun team

Von Braun biography. Von Braun was generally reluctant to sign books. The edition is a notable exception.

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The Coming of the Space Age

by Arthur C. Clarke

Meredith Press, 1967

SIGNED by Arthur C. Clarke

A collection of quite interesting essays on the space age. An important work in the field. Writers include Wernher von Braun on German rocketry, Walter Dornberger on the V--2, Robert Goddard, Hermann Oberth, Percival Lowell, Carl Sagan, C. S. Lewis and others.

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The All-American Boys; An Insider's Candid Look at the Space Program and the Myth of the Super Hero

by Walter Cunningham (with assistance credited to Mickey Herskowitz, but our understanding is that this “assistance” was quite limited)

Macmillan Publishing, 1977, hardbound with dust jacket-

SIGNED by Walter Cunningham

A candid, insider’s look at the American astronauts and space program.

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Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen (The Rocket into Planetary Space)

by Hermann Oberth

Oldenburg, 1923.

Signed by Obertth

Ciancone #176a

The first technical book on spaceflight.

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Across the Space Frontier

by Joseph Kaplan, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willey Ley, Oscar Schacter, Fred Whipple; edited by Cornelius Ryan

Viking Press, 1952, hardbound with dust jacket

Signed by Wernher von Braun

Much of the material originally appeared in a series of articles in Collier's magazine, coming out of the First Annual Symposium on Space Travel in 1951. Simply a wonderful book which foreshadowed the future of spaceflight.

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Carrying the Fire; An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1974, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Michael Collins, sometimes found signed with lengthy inscriptions to patrons of St. Albans School college preparatory school

Arguably the best of astronaut autobiographies.

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Apollo; The Race to the Moon

by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox

Simon and Schuster, 1989, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by the Apollo 11 crew Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

Excellent history of Project Apollo with greater emphasis on the engineers and flight controllers.

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History of Rocketry & Space Travel

by Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III

Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966, hardbound with dust jacket

SIGNED by Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway

Comprehensive history of rockets and spaceflight.

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A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes

by Robert H. Goddard

Smithsonian Institution, stated 1919 (actually published in 1920), wraps.

Ciancone #84

SIGNED by Robert Goddard

First English language  book (monograph) applying rockets to research and spaceflight.

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First on the Moon; A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

by Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin; Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

Little, Brown and Company 1970, Hardbound with dust jacket (beware of Book Club Editions)

SIGNED by the Apollo 11 crew--Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

An account of the first lunar landing, ostensibly written by the Apollo 11 crew

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We Seven

Ostensibly written by M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John Glenn, Jr., Virgil I, Grissom, Walter M Schirra, Jr., and Donald Keith Slayton, but most likely written by Loudon Wainwright of Life magazine

Simon and Schuster, 1962, Hardbound with dust jacket. Beware: the Book Club Editions have gray spines (instead of black) and faulty bindings.

SIGNED by M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John Glenn, Jr., Virgil I, Grissom, Walter M Schirra, Jr., and Donald Keith Slayton

First person accounts of the Mercury 7 astronauts.

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