Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 383 pages. Illus., index, presentation copy to broadcast journalist Diane Rehm inscribed and signed by Alan Shepard. More

Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 383 pages. Illus., index, DJ spine creased. Signed by the author (Alan Shepard). More

Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1994. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Trade paperback. 383, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Introduction by Neil Armstrong. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. Shepard was designated as the commander of the first manned Project Gemini mission, but was grounded in 1963 due to Ménière's disease, an ailment that caused episodes of extreme dizziness and nausea. This was corrected in 1969, and in 1971, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the Apollo Lunar Module to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993), was an American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office. Slayton was selected to pilot the second U.S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1962 by atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm. He then served as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations, making him responsible for crew assignments at NASA from November 1963 until March 1972. More

New York: Facts on File, 1989. First Printing. Quarto, 111, illus. (some color), appendix, glossary, reading list, library stamps to rear flyleaf (crossed out in marker) & fore-edge. More

New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [10], 192, [6] pages. Signed, in Russian, on the front free endpaper by the author. Signature verified by a native Russian writer and speaker. Signature verified through on-line research. Chapters include Sleepwalker in a Fog; Serafim; The Moon Came Out; Night; Heavenly Flame; Most Beloved; The Poet and the Muse; and Limpopo. The stories in this book were originally published separately in Russian. Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (born 3 May 1951) is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family, known for her fiction and "acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life". Tolstaya received her education at the department of classical philology of the Leningrad State University. She moved to Moscow in the early 1980s and started working in the Nauka publishing house. Her first short story, "On the Golden Porch" appeared in Avrora magazine in 1983 and marked the start of Tolstaya's literary career, and her story collection of the same name established Tolstaya as one of the foremost writers of the perestroika and post-Soviet period. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. For the twelve years between 2002 and 2014, Tolstaya co-hosted a Russian cultural television programme, The School for Scandal, on which she conducted interviews with diverse representatives of contemporary Russian culture and politics. More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 650, [2] pages. Illustrations. Map. Footnotes. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Boards somewhat scuffed and soiled. Smithsonian Publication 3077. Includes plates on the Autogiro; Gliding in Germany; Wild Life Protection; Extra Chromosomes; Tell en-Nasbeh excavations; Ancient seating furniture; Aboriginal decorative art; and the Holland tunnel. Included among the studies presented are The modern sun cult; The moon and radioactivity; Light waves; Weather and glaciation; Organic evolution; Old World prehistory; Jesse Walter Fewkes, George Perkins Merrill, and the acclimatization of the white race in the tropics. More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970. 12.5" x 15.5", 267, profusely illus. (many color, many tipped in), maps, endpaper maps, charts, chronology, text creased at top inner corner. More