China's Air Force Enters the 21st Century
Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1995. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 249, wraps, illus., maps, references, some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on title page. More
Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1995. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 249, wraps, illus., maps, references, some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on title page. More
Washington DC: John Glenn, Jr. One of multiple originals, but uniquely signed. Photograph [Framed]. Image is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. The Capitol building is on the left side (and may be a 'stock' shot) and Senator Glenn is prominent in the center and right foreground. He is in a civilian suit. In the sky above his head he has written Best regards--J H Glenn, Jr. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator in the United States Marine Corps, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, Chinese Civil War and Korean War. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Aged 77, Glenn flew on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission, making him the oldest person to enter Earth orbit, and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the Space Shuttle programs. More
New York: The Free Press, 1968. First Printing. 394, ftnotes, app, biblio, index, marginal stains on a few pgs, top of rear flylf torn off, weakness to r bd, DJ some wear & sm tear. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, [1985]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 135, wraps, fold-out plates, maps, notes, bibliography, bottom of cover strengthened/repaired with clear tape. More