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Topic: Space Patches book
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dave
Member Posts: 367
From: leicestershire/england
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted March 06, 2004 11:37 AM
   
I have a book from 1986 called "Space Patches-from Mercury to the Space Shuttle" by Judith Kaplan and Robert Muniz(Sterling Pub,New York 1st edition)-128 pages with many colour pix of patches and details of how each patch was designed...anybody wants it mail me!AM curious as to why this book is on sale for £53 on Amazon????????? [This message has been edited by dave (edited March 06, 2004).] |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 23493
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted March 06, 2004 07:15 PM
Amazon's listing for this title is through used book dealers and only three copies are available at current. It may be that supply and demand has driven the price of this book skyward, similar to what has happened to Murray's and Cox' "Apollo" (that commands similar prices on the secondary market). I do not know if faced with the decision today that I would pay the prices quoted for "Space Patches". While it has been a good book to have on the shelf for reference, if needed I could probably find much of the same information on NASA's website and inside Russ Still's "Relics of the Space Race" (that also addresses which company manufactured the official patches for NASA; a topic I do not believe is discussed in "Space Patches")... not to mention the excellent resource websites: www.spacepatches.info and www.genedorr.com/patches |
dave
Member Posts: 367
From: leicestershire/england
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted March 06, 2004 07:22 PM
Yeah,i think i would agree with that,its a good book but hardly worth those prices even if it is rare?
Anybody wanting it enough can make me a sensible offer and its yours |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 536
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted March 07, 2004 03:58 PM
I loved the book back in 1988 when I bought it at a second hand bookshop. I often wondered how piles of that book ended up here in the Netherlands... It has certainly fueled my interest in space patches. The pictures were very nice. Man! How much I wanted these GTSI and Mach 25 patches... Through the years, I have discovered some strange errors and omissions, but that was before the time when all of us could discuss things in such a high speed on the internet... so for that time, it was a very good book.Erik
spacepatches.info |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1263
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted March 09, 2004 05:37 PM
Robert.. Murray and Cox' "Apollo" is commanding what kind of prices?.... How about one that is signed by Deke Slayton? |
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