Earthbound Astronauts: The Builders of Apollo-Saturn.

First edition of this work on the Apollo missions, signed by 42 astronauts. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed to Bob and Dolores Hope on the half-title page, "12-12-72 To my friend Bob Hope- Unlike the Earthbound Astronauts, he is not "unsung." Like them, he as conquered new worlds in planting his own particular flag on the surface of the hards of humanity... And to Dolores, who has lost her cool, a twin of Gene Kranz, back at Mission Control, Tahoe Lake Beirne." Additionally signed inside by 42 Apollo and Space Shuttle astronauts, including: Alan Shepard, Alan Bean, Charlie Duke, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Charles Conrad (twice), John Young, Jack Swigert (twice), James Lovell, Fred Haise, Rusty Schweickart, Ron Evans, Ken Mattingly, Tom Stafford, Gordon Fullerton, Joe Engle, Vance Brand, Bruce McCandless II, Ed Gibson, Jerry Carr, and others. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.