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Mercury Seven signed first edition, first printing of ''We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves'', signed by each of the seven Mercury astronauts. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962, published just after Scott Carpenter's voyage on Aurora 7. Signed on the illustrated front free endpaper as follows: ''Gordon Coooper'', ''Gus Grissom'', ''WM Schirra Jr'', ''Scott Carpenter'', ''Alan B. Shepard Jr.'', ''JH Glenn, Jr'' and ''DK Slayton''. Inscribed at top, ''To the Earl McMahan Family - With best regards''.
''We Seven'' is told in the words of the astronauts themselves, with personal and riveting accounts of NASA's Mercury missions, complemented with photographs throughout. The Mercury 7 were the small and prestigious men in Astronaut Group 1, the first astronauts ever chosen by NASA in 1959. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white lettering and illustrated endpapers. Housed in original dust jacket showing price of $6.50. Some tears and chipping to jacket, repaired with archival tape. Book is well-preserved, in very good plus condition. With Steve Zarelli Space Authentication COA for all seven signatures.