Signed book: We Seven. Book club edition. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Expertly recased in a handsome gilt-stamped, black morocco binding (signed on the rear turn-in “GB”) with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.5, 473 pages. The book has been signed in various inks by approximately 38. Two front blanks in a single “spread” include all twelve moonwalkers and virtually every human who voyaged to the moon (with the exception of Ron Evans); a few others have signed elsewhere. The list of astronauts and cosmonauts, and their respective projects/missions, follows. [A few astronauts are shown under multiple missions as appropriate; however, each has signed only once unless specifically noted.] Mercury: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, D. K. Slayton. Gemini 3: John Young. Gemini 4: James McDivitt. Gemini 5: Cooper, Charles Conrad, Jr.. Gemini 7: Frank Borman, James Lovell. Gemini 6A: Schirra, Tom Stafford. Gemini 8: Neil Armstrong, Dave Scott. Gemini 9A: Stafford, Gene Cernan. Gemini 10: Young, Michael Collins. Gemini 11: Conrad, Dick Gordon. Gemini 12: Buzz Aldrin, Lovell. Apollo 7: Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walt Cunningham. Apollo 8: Borman, Lovell, Bill Anders. Apollo 9: McDivitt, Scott, Rusty Schweickart. Apollo 10: Stafford, Young, Cernan. Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins. Apollo 12: Conrad, Gordon, Alan L. Bean. Apollo 13: Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred W. Haise. Apollo 14: Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, Ed Mitchell. Apollo 15: Scott, Jim Irwin, Al Worden. Apollo 16: John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke, Jr. Apollo 17: Cernan, Jack Schmitt. Apollo-Soyuz: Stafford, Vance Brand, Slayton, Aleksei Leonov, Valery Kubasov. STS-1: Bob Crippen, Young. STS-2: Joe Engle, Richard H. Truly. STS-3: Jack Lousma. STS-4: Mattingly. STS-6: Story Musgrave (twice, once inscribing to “Stockton”; see below), Paul Weitz. STS-41B: Brand, Ed Gibson, Bruce McAndless. STS-51B: Don Lind. The book has also been signed by cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and approximately six other NASA personnel, including two LLTV pilots. According to the consignor, the signatures were originally obtained by Story Musgrave for Allan Stockton, a member of the Air Force. The book is accompanied by a color NASA photo of Musgrave, signed and inscribed in black felt tip: “To Allan: With best wishes and many thanks, Story Musgrave, NASA Astronaut.” Light staining to several interior pages (not affecting any signed pages) and a few signatures lightly overlapping one another, otherwise In fine condition. A rare and most remarkable gathering! COA Scott Cornish and R&R COA.
