Collectible - Very Good First Edition Signed With Dust Jacket

INSCRIBED! Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979. First edition, stated. 4to hardcover. [xii]+284pp. B/W and color illustrations and photos throughout. Inscribed on front endpage, "For Tom Crouch,/ With warmest wishes/ Your friend and also space colleague/ Fred Lordway". Very good book, near good dust jacket. Jacket lacking about half an inch from spine head. Moderately shelf- and edge-worn, and lightly toned. Book sunned very slightly to head of spine. Interior near fine. From the library of American aeronautics author, historian and curator Tom D. Crouch. (space, spaceflight, outer space, solar system, galaxy, planet, exoplanet) Inquire if you need further information.