Collectible - Good First Edition Signed With Dust Jacket

INSCRIBED! New York: Scholastic Press, 1996. First edition, first printing. 11.25-inch wide 8vo hardcover. 42 pages. Full color photos throughout. Inscribed by NASA astronaut Tom Jones on half-title page, "To Joe Duffy - // With best wishes to a fellow explorer! // Aim high... Be seeing you on Mars! // Tom Jones STS-59-68-80-98." Official NASA portrait of Jones laid in, also inscribed, "To Joe Duffy- // Best Wishes! // Tom Jones // STS-59-68-80-98." A near-very good book in a near-very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed with a small closed tear to rear. Corners and spine tips of book lightly bumped, with slight rippling of rear pastedown. Inquire if you need further information.