HARDBACK NOW FILMED AS ?OCTOBER SKY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Fourth Estate.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight bumps to tail of spine & lower front corner, no rubs, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £15.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine, now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 362 pp. text. vi pp. epilogue at rear.* Description: Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, USA, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam's smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honour for a miner's kid--is rich in humour as well as warm sentiment." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father's respect is equally affecting.* A NEAR FINE copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4056
Title: Rocket Boys, A True Story.
Author: Hickam, Homer H
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/VG++/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 1857029909
ISBN 13: 9781857029901
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Place of Publication: London UK 369
Date Published: 1998-10-29
Size: 23.6 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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