Signed book: Project Mercury by Charles Coombs. First edition. NY: William Morrow and Company, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 8.5. Inscribed at the top of the first free end page by Scott Carpenter, "Dec. 1960, For Marion Smith with best wishes from the Mercury Astronauts," and signed underneath in ink and ballpoint, "Virgil I. Grissom," "John H. Glenn, Jr.," "Alan B. Shepard, Jr.," "Donald K. Slayton," "M. Scott Carpenter," "Leroy S. Cooper, Jr.," and "Walter M. Schirra, Jr." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/VG, with small edge nicks and tears to the price-clipped dust jacket. An attractive piece bearing the astronauts' uncommon 'formal' variety of signatures.
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