Human Enterprise, Signed (9 results)

First edition hard back in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamping to upper panel. 8vo 8¾" x 6" xlii, 360 [pp]. Monochrome frontispiece. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to front end paper 'To Mr A. W. Haycock M.P. With kindest regards and best wishes from Frederic E. Holsinger, London March 18th 1930.' Spine faded and surface splash marks to covers, contents clean and bright, binding firm. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIALISM (Social Democracy).

Hard back publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine, blind stamping to upper panel. 8vo 8¾" x 6" xlii, 360 [pp]. 1 / 500 copies. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to front end paper 'To the Editor of "The Kentish Express," With the author's kindest regards and best wishes of Frederic E. Holsinger, London February 25th 1933.' Monochrome portrait frontispiece. Spine slightly faded and in Very Good clean and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ECONOMICS & COMMERCE.

SIGNED by Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17! Inscribed, personalized! BOX packed with padding. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, heavy diagonal creases across bottom of intro page. Cover: near fine edges, slight rubbing to front top corner tip. See Photos! Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon?to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role?just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production?Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space by Harrison Schmitt. Inscribed by author on full title page. Hardcover with laminated boards. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black boards with blue cloth spine, with silver lettering. Black pictorial DJ in good condition (not quite very good because of a little crinkle at the top edge of the DJ). The book itself is in great shape. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 2006. 335 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page, 'To Linda! and [??] future, Harrison H. Schmitt. Apollo 17.' Schmitt was the 12th man to walk on the moon (there were only 13) as a member of the Apollo 17 crew, in Dec 1972. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by Schmitt. Also signed by John Glenn. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Light rubbing to the jacket, else unmarked. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. pp. xvi, 1-335 including index. 8vo. Illustrated. Charts. First Edition, First Printing, (with no notice to the contrary). Signed by Harrison H. Schmitt with Apollo 17 noted on the title page, (some bleed through from the autograph ink onto the copyright page). Not inscribed to anyone. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar sleeve, not price clipped. No previous owner's names or marks. The dust jacket and book are in new condition. Purchased by this collector and book dealer when the book was first published and the author was first signing. Since then protected in an enclosed bookcase. Written by the only geologist to explore the moon first hand. An extremely scarce copy in this condition. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, early printing of the author's visionary plan for humankind's future in space. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Louise and the future! Harrison H. Schmitt Apollo 17." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jordan Rosenbum. Here, in just a few decades or less, Harrison Schmitt tells us, humans should be back in space in ways few of us have imagined. The goal, as he sees it, is nothing less than a new and permanent era of human enterprise, achievement, and settlement in space.

First edition of the author's visionary plan for humankind's future in space. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bob Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jordan Rosenbum. Here, in just a few decades or less, Harrison Schmitt tells us, humans should be back in space in ways few of us have imagined. The goal, as he sees it, is nothing less than a new and permanent era of human enterprise, achievement, and settlement in space.