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We Seven
by Carpenter, M. Scott; Cooper, L. Gordon; Glenn, John H.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Schirra, Walter M.; Shepard, Alan B.; Slayton, Donald K
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/--
- Seller
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LOrignal, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster New York, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/--. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/8. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing INCLUDES PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book VERY GOOD PLUS. No dust jacket issued, or is missing. Boards are grey leatherette with black lettering. Very small creases at top and bottom of spine, other than that virtually no wear showing on covers/spine. Corners straight. Sewn binding, upper edges of pages are red, as issued, not faded. Back end papers show sky and rocket going up. Front end papers show launch towers and rocket just launched. Possibly a very slight sag in book interior, as bottom page corner tips have touched the shelf in a size about 1/8 inch x 1/8. Front board and first free end page have been overzealously opened, and the paper is torn along the spine, revealing the sewn backing, which makes the spine a bit looser from the book, but the sewn cloth backing is not cut or torn, and the cover is not tearing away from the book. It’s barely noticeable but for the small 1/8 inch gap in the centre of he colour photo on the end pages, and the slight looseness of the cover. Rag edge pages. 6 sections of Black/white photo plates (matte finish). Someone wrote “Beginning in 1959, NASA began a series of rocket tests with the goal of putting a man in space. Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet pilot, beat Alan Shepard into space by about three weeks in the spring of 1961. By 1963, six of the seven American astronauts had orbited the earth. We Seven, a book by the Mercury program astronauts, is one of the most popular books on the subject.
Synopsis
âÈò Published for the fiftieth anniversary of the Mercury program: Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASAâÈçs manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In We Seven , first published in 1962, the astronauts take readers behind the scenes of this pioneering programâÈ'even into the space capsules themselves. âÈò Fascinating firsthand accounts: The astronauts describe the exhilarating launches, hair-raising challenges, and incredible successes of Project MercuryâÈ'from breaking through the earthâÈçs atmosphere to panicking when a hatch blows. But Project Mercury was more than the heroism of individual missions. In We Seven , AmericaâÈçs original astronauts share with usâÈ'as only they canâÈ'the hopes and dreams of the U.S. at the dawn of a new era.
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Details
- Bookseller
- WILLOWBAY BOOKS
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B0092Avia-WeSeven
- Title
- We Seven
- Author
- Carpenter, M. Scott; Cooper, L. Gordon; Glenn, John H.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Schirra, Walter M.; Shepard, Alan B.; Slayton, Donald K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/--
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 375 Pages
- Size
- 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/8
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
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