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Group of Books on Cold War Space Programs
Sold
$20
Timed Auction
Railroad Crossing Discovery Auction: Closing February 3rd, 2025
Category
Description
Comprising seven volumes, all in original cloth bindings, most with jackets, including Loyd Swenson, Jr. et al., THIS NEW OCEAN: A HISTORY OF PROJECT MERCURY (Washington: NASA, 1966); Walter McDougall, THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE SPACE AGE (NY: Basic Books, 1985) with a humorous inscription from the Author; and Bertrand Goldschmidt, trans. by G. M. Temmer, ATOMIC RIVALS: A CANDID MEMOIR OF RIVALRIEA AMONG THE ALLIES OVER THE BOMB (NY: Rutgers, 1990).
Provenance
From the collection of Dr. Harold Finger, a high-level NASA administrator in the 1960s and '70s and later Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at HUD
