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Exceptional signed book: The Astronauts: The Story of Project Mercury, America's Man-in-Space Program. Second printing. NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 192 pages. Signed on the first free end page in ballpoint by the complete original group of NASA astronauts: "Leroy S. Cooper, Jr.," "John H. Glenn, Jr.," "Walter M. Schirra, Jr.," "Alan B. Shepard, Jr.," "Donald K. Slayton," "M. Scott Carpenter," and "Virgil I. Grissom," and signed again on the half-title page by Grissom. Also inscribed in another hand, "To Al Hoskins, with Best wishes from the Mercury Astronauts, 1961." In fine condition, with a few small stains to the multi-signed page, and wear and tears only to the dust jacket.
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