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CODE TO ZERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set at Cape Canaveral in 1958. ISBN: 0-525-945636.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22760More details Price: $12.50 -
ENTERPRISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of "the use of the shuttle in our future space programs - the dreams, the battles, and the personalities involved." Enterprise was the name given to the first US space shuttle.. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Chronology, acronyms, index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688034624.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66899More details Price: $17.50 -
OMON RA.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First edition - The first novel (preceded by books of short stories) by this award-winning Russian fabulist, the story of a young man who has dreamed of space flight since he was a boy, who enrolls as a cosmonaut, a devasting satire of the Soviet space program. George Saunders comments that "Pelevin is a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human, our petty squabbles, haff-assed inventions and, above all, our corruptible dreams." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 139 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed gray wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 76457More details Price: $45.00 -
VENGEANCE 10.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Alternative history novel set during World War II where the Nazis have created a rocket that could reach the moon - and if they could land an atomic device on the moon, they could control the world. According to the author - who worked in the Apollo Space Program in the 1960s - this was suggested by something Wernher van Braun had once told him. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-68911110X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (date stamped on top edge of textblock, few spots to bottom edge. but otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 91918More details Price: $18.50 -
MIKE MARS SOUTH POLE SPACEMAN, #6.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1962). Hardcover first edition - The sixth Mike Mars book - a space adventure series for young readers carefully researched. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Albert Orbaan, full-color illustrated endpapers. 190 pp.
Condition: Very good in pale green boards, corners slightly bumped, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 72292More details Price: $15.00