Sep 292019
 

I have two books for sale. Interestingly, I have a few copies of each book. The two books:

1: “Space Planners Guide,” put out by the USAF, Air Force System Command, 1 July 1965. This large format hardcover book is intended to help someone plan pretty much every aspect of a space mission, at least to first order, including the design of space vehicles. Today this would of course all be done on a computer. This books comes with a big pile of transparencies in pockets inside both the front and back covers that include many graphs for use in working out the whichness of the why of all aspects of space planning. The book itself is not classified, but there is a warning inside it telling users to not scribble their findings in the margins because the book can be used to *design* classified vehicles and missions. These are hard to come by; there weren’t that many in the first place. Most of my copies are in very good condition, but one has some damage to the front cover (though none to the interior of the book itself). All come with the transparencies.

Intact copies: $150 each plus postage SOLD OUT

The slightly damaged copy: $135 plus postage SOLD

2: “Handbook of Astronautical Engineering” a massive tome published in 1961, edited by H. H. Koelle, director of the Future Projects Office at NASA-Marshall. This also covers nearly all aspects of space mission and vehicle design, but in much greater detail. It’s a classic.

The Handbooks are $150 each plus postage. I have more of those than the Planners Guides. TWO LEFT

As always, if you are interested, send me an email letting me know which book(s) you want and what your mailing address is. These can be sent via low-cost media mail, but if you want something fast, let me know in the email. As always, it’s first come, first served, but people who want a copy of *both* books go to the head of the line.

 

A big mess of photos of these books have been uploaded to Dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wdhstvjbgaxk527/AAAFBubce_AtrmvVyR5BhREMa?dl=0

 

 Posted by at 11:17 pm
Sep 222019
 

Some of the people teaching our nations children are… not good people.

Trashing Unwoke Books

In short, a school library dumped a lot of books into a dumpster. The true cause for this is unclear; it is a sad reality that libraries often have to relieve themselves of large numbers of unwanted/unneeded/damaged books. And the further reality is that a great many, perhaps most, books are of no real great cultural or historical value, and wind up just taking up space. This is an issue I’m wrestling with myself, with the end result being that several car loads of paperbacks and a metric ᚠᚪᛣᚳᛏᚩᚾ of National Geographics will have to go to a thriftstore or, worse, the dump. This is a reality that I recognize… but it’s not one I *celebrate.* Because I’m not a gorram woke SJW who revels in the erasure of my history and culture.

In contrast:

It’s impossible to make out what’s in those dumpsters. Could very well be a boatload of multiple copies of obsolete textbooks, the loss of which is often no real loss. But to celebrate tossing them out in order to replace them with woke rubbish of no talent, skill, virtue or value is just friggen’ tragic. Worse, the person doing the celebrating…

… is the head of “English Language Arts” for the public schools in Washington Township, NJ.

Ye gods.

The rest of the article is worth reading, especially the bits about how that township has a paid position for some to oversee the implementation of “equity” and the nonsense that goes with it:

 Posted by at 7:27 pm
Sep 082019
 

Start your Christmas shopping early by buying my stuff:

Rhodochrosite crystal  from Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, approx. 20x16x12mm


Rhodochrosite crystal  from Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, approx. 22x18x9mm


Eaglemoss Star Trek Starships: Lot of Five Ships & magazines, new


Star Trek Book Lot: Blish, Logs, Jackill’s, Tech Manual, Guide to the Enterprise

 


And there will be other stuff.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/dynascott

 Posted by at 8:32 pm
Sep 062019
 

I’m selling off a chunk of my library. Below is a link to a PDF catalog with thirty books, all of which I’m selling for five dollars ($5) each plus postage. If you are interested, just send me an email letting me know which one(s) you want and what your mailing address is. First responder for any book gets it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3oc8d2tdup687f/books%20for%20sale%209-6-2019.pdf?dl=0

Also available is a multi-volume report on the Space Station as envisioned in 1984. This is available to the first responder for $60 plus postage.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ev8cdujenszxu99/stationdocs.pdf?dl=0

If interested, send an email to

I’m also pondering selling off a whole bunch of sci-fi paperbacks in lots.

 Posted by at 3:09 pm
Jul 082019
 

And here endeth the lesson. Read the final installment after the break.

Lemme know what y’all think in the comments. I slapped all these separate posts together at one time and scheduled them in advance… so for all I know I’ve been run over by a Mack truck and yer never gonna get to see anything else from the War With The Deep Ones. But assuming I’ve miraculously survived the last two weeks and retain enough cognitive function and physical capability to do anything about anything… does this seem like something you’d buy a  paperback copy of? As a reminder, the first “War” story is Honolulu, the second is Champion of the Seas. Feel free to check them out.

Of course if I *am* dead, then I don’t care what people want. What with being dead and all.

Continue reading »

 Posted by at 11:33 pm
Jul 072019
 

And I’m a little surprised at the lack of interest in some of them:

Aerospace Vehicle Design Vol II Spacecraft Design by K. D. Wood, 1964

This one is real hard to come by, usually sells for well over $100. Only one bid, $19.99. This one ends in a  few hours.


Three early “Space” books for kids: Fletcher Pratt, Jack Coggins, Lester Del Rey

Sure, they’re a little rough, but they’re old kids books, awesome in their massively over-optimistic way, and terribly low price. This one ends in a  few hours.

 


Proceedings of the Shuttle-Based Cometary Science Workshop, 1976 NASA

This one ends in a  few hours.

 


And this one:

XIIIth International Astronautical Congress Varna 1962, II (pp 483-1026)

This book of conference proceedings has papers on the Aerojet Sea Dragon, a general Electic “Direct” Apollo design and a nuclear-powered TV satellite. It’s already made the rounds on ebay once, no bidders. Huh.

 

And there’s other stuff.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/dynascott

 Posted by at 4:29 pm