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[SPACE-AUTOGRAPHS] The Home Planet, conceived and edited by Kevin W. Kelley for the Association of Space Explorers.
Reading, MA & Moscow: Addison Wesley/Mir Publisher, [1988]. First edition, with a tipped-in leaf containing approximately 38 original signatures of members of the Association of Space Explorers (mostly astronauts & cosmonauts, see note) signed at Sofia, Bulgaria, October 1988; the volume also inscribed in gold ink on frontispiece in 2007 by Rusty Schweickart. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, in original pictorial dust jacket. 14 x 10 inches (36 x 25 cm); photographically illustrated, much text in English and Russian, with a foreword by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and preface by Russell Schweickart. Minor shelfwear to lower cloth edge and a few nicks to jacket including a short closed tear to the upper panel, the title page with some offset from the facing illustration, else fine.
A finely illustrated volume enhanced by the inscription of Apollo IX astronaut Rusty Schweickart and the inserted leaf signed by Walt Cunningham; Taylor Wang; Scott Carpenter; Wubbo Ockels; Rusty Schweickart; Stuart Rosa; Sigmund Jahn; Svetlana Savitskaya; Rodolpho Neri; Bob Overmyer; John Bartoe; Aleksei Leonov; Donald Peterson; John Fabian; and others.
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