US Air Force officer (1928–2022) who held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet—from 1960 until 2012, and the first person to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon. Signed book: The Long, Lonely Leap by Captain Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., USAF. First edition. NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 249 pages. Signed on the half-title page in black felt tip, "Joe Kittinger." In very good to fine condition, with moderate wear to the dust jacket (including a couple tape-repaired tears), and various ex-library stamps and markings. Scarce and valuable even in unsigned examples, this is a desirable signed copy of the story of Kittinger's famous jump.
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