Product code: SIGNED, Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam, Jr, Signed shops on Title Page, Later Printing, New
New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Twenty-second shops printing with number line ending with 22. Signed "Aim High! Homer Hickam" on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips. Faint crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 368 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr. shares the story of his youth and an extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia. Step by step, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of a collection of unforgettable characters, the boys learn not only how to turn scrap into sophisticated rockets that fly miles into the sky, but how to sustain their dreams as they dared to imagine a life beyond its borders of town.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Twenty-second shops printing with number line ending with 22. Signed "Aim High! Homer Hickam" on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips. Faint crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 368 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr. shares the story of his youth and an extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia. Step by step, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of a collection of unforgettable characters, the boys learn not only how to turn scrap into sophisticated rockets that fly miles into the sky, but how to sustain their dreams as they dared to imagine a life beyond its borders of town.