NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). His landmark account of the early years of the American space program and the culture of the astronauts whose characters helped define it. Inscribed by Tom Wolfe and also inscribed by astronauts John Glenn and test pilot and fighter pilot Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier and later the first commandant of the US Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School, which produced astronauts for NASA and the USAF. Both Yeager and Glenn are key figures in the book, with Yeager being the pilot who coined the phrase "pushing the envelope," to refer to expanding the flight possibilities of an aircraft. With an autograph note signed by Wolfe laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket, in a custom clamshell case, which also houses the program for a 1991 dinner at which Yeager was the featured speaker. A unique copy, inscribed by the author and two of the key figures in the story he tells, and with an ANS of the author. Winner of the National Book Award. [#033406] SOLD