Signed book: America’s First Spaceman by Jewel Spangler Smaus and Charles B. Spangler. First edition, first printing. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1962. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.5 x 8.5, 159 pages. Signed in ballpoint on the half-title page, “With regards, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 6/11/62.” Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the daughter of a woman who worked for Shepard for 35 years and received the book from Shepard. Wear to jacket including chips and tears, and a touch of light soiling to book, and a gift presentation written on first free end page, otherwise fine condition. COA Scott Cornish and R&R COA.
