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"WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York Norton, (1988.) dj. Hardcover - As told to Ralph Leighton, the last literary legacy of this Nobel Prize winner for Physics. A book which reflects his unquenchable thirst for adventure and which pays tribute to two people in his life - his father and his wife. The second section gives a behind the scenes look into the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986. Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-019217.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88529More details Price: $17.50 -
GRAVITY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74986More details Price: $30.00 -
HARLEM PRINCESS: The Story of Harry Delany's Daughter.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Vantage Press Inc. (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a woman who was the daughter of a black numbers banker in Harlem in the 1920's, who became the highest ranking woman at NASA. Includes a tribute to the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and a first hand account of the Freeman Field Incident where 101 black flying officers were arrested and charged with mutiny. She also tells of her son's struggle with AIDS and of her personal accomplishments and disappointments. Photographs. 346 pp with notes. ISBN: 0-533-088828.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookstore stamp on front endpaper.) Uncommon.
Book ID: 27382More details Price: $35.00 -
SPACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A massive and well-researched novel about American exploration in space, spanning the first 40 years of NASA. 622 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-505557.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (short closed tear and some creasing at top of dj spine.)
Book ID: 42898More details Price: $20.00