Books cheapskates can afford (was Books lunatics hate)

Bargin (cheapskate) prices for space books recently mentioned on
Sci.Space.*:

I admit, I'm a cheapskate and I have purchased most of these books at
these
prices (or less). ;-)

(Survey of prices taken July 15, 2003.)

-"Space Shuttle..first 100 Missions by Jenkins -Amazon used $ 19.98
-Half.com $ 21.75 hardcover (1996)

-"Project Orion" by Dyson -Half.com $ 9.95 hardcover, -Amazon used $
15.00

-"The Demon Haunted World" by Sagan -Amazon used $ 5.50

-"UFOs and Space Mysteries" by Oberg -Amazon used $ 10.00

-"A Man on the Moon" by Andy Chaikin; -Amazon used - $ 1.05 and up.
-Half.com $ .75 paperback.

-"Apollo: Race to the Moon" Murray & Cox; -Amazon used - $ 72.95 and
up. -Half.com $ 45.67 hardcover.

-"Carrying the Fire" by Mike Collins; -Amazon used - $ 3.76 and up
-Half.com $ 3.75 paperback, $ 5.87 hardcover.

-"First on the Moon" by Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin; -Amazon - $ 5.99
and up. -Half.com $ 2.09 hardcover.

-"Full Moon" by Michael Light; -Amazon used $ 8.00 and up. -Half.com $
5.25 hardcover.

-"Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon" by David Reynolds; -Amazon - $
17.99 and up. -Half.com $ 14.50 hardcover.

-"The Home Planet" by Kelley / ASE; -Amazon used - $ 3.32 and up.
-Half.com $ 3.00 hardcover (1988), $ 3.75 paperback (1991)

-"Entering Space" by Joe Allen; -Amazon used $ 1.99 and up. -Half.com
$ 1.95 hardcover, $ 1.69 paperback.



NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books):

(Amazon.com used unless otherwise noted)

-X-15 - $ 7.95 Amazon & Half.com

-Mars - $ 5.99

-Freedom 7 - $ 8.68
-Friendship 7 - $ 3.60 Amazon & Half.com
-Sigma 7 - $ 15.37 (only available new)

-Gemini 6 - $ 5.50 Amazon & Half.com
-Gemini 7 - $ 10.05 Amazon & Half.com

-Apollo 7 - $ 1.50 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 8 - $ 6.44 (Half.com $ 2.25)
-Apollo 9 - $ 3.75 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 10 - $ 2.40 - (At Half.com)
-Apollo 11 - Volume 1 - $ 3.50 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 11 - Volume 2 - $ 2.35 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 11 - Volume 3 - $ 14.00
-Apollo 12 - $ 1.69 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 13 - $ 10.29 (Half.com $ 10.99)
-Apollo 14 - $ 1.65 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 15 - $ 6.59
-Apollo 16 - $ 9.95
-Apollo 17 - $ 12.95

-Virtual Apollo - $ 12.56 Buy.com (Amazon $ 13.97)

-Space Shuttle STS 1-5 - $ 13.95

-Rocket & Space Corp Energia - $ 9.99


For used books, Amazon does not combine shipping. It's about $ 3.75
shipping per book (Media Mail).


The books are available at these URLs (as of July 15, 2003):

www.amazon.com

www.half.com

www.buy.com



--
Rusty Barton - Antelope, California

MORE CHEAPSKATE BARGAINS - ASTRONAUT BOOKS
Available at www.amazon.com unless otherwise noted.
(Survey taken 16 July, 2003)


Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz", & Malcolm McConnell
"Men from Earth"
New York: Bantam Books, 1989
-Amazon used $ 0.99 hardcover

Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz", & Wayne Warga
"Return to Earth"
New York: Random House, 1973
-Amazon used $ 0.75 hardcover

Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz"
"Encounter With Tiber"
New York; Warner Books Inc., 1996
-Amazon used $ 2.20

Allen, Joseph P., & Russell Martin.
"Entering Space: An Astronaut's Odyssey"
1984
-Amazon used $ 1.99

Armstrong, Neil, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr, Gene Farmer &
Dora Jane Hamblin.
"First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and
Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr."
Boston: Little, Brown, 1970
-Amazon used $ 5.99 hardcover

Association of Space Explorers, edited by Edward Gibson, foreword by
James A. Michener
"The Greatest Adventure"
Chico, CA; Mach 1 Publishers, 1994
-Amazon used $ 4.28 hardcover

Association of Space Explorers, edited by Kevin W. Kelley, foreword by
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"The Home Planet"
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1988
-Amazon used $ 11.24 hardcover, $ 3.18 paperback

By the Astronauts as told to Dick Lattimer. Foreword by James A.
Michener
"All We Did Was Fly To The Moon"
Alachua, FL: Whispering Eagle Press, 1983
-Amazon used $ 3.00 paperback

Bean, Alan & Beverly Fraknoi
"My Life As An Astronaut"
Minstrel Books (Pocket Books), 1988
-Amazon used $ 11.63 library binding, $ 0.88 paperback

Borman, Frank, & Robert J. Serling
"Countdown : An Autobiography"
New York: William Morrow, Silver Arrow Books, 1988
-Amazon used $ 3.05

Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, Slayton
"We Seven" 1962
-Amazon used $ 1.00

Carpenter, Scott
"Deep Flight" 1994
-Amazon used $ 0.01 paperback

Carpenter, Scott
"The Steel Albatross"
New York: Pocket Books, 1991
-Amazon used $ 0.70 hardcover, $ 0.01 paperback

Collins, Michael
"Carrying the Fi An Astronaut's Journey's"
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974
-Amazon used $ 4.99 hardcover

Collins, Michael
"Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places"
1976
-Amazon used $ 2.45 paperback

Collins, Michael
"Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space"
New York: Grove Press, 1988
-Amazon used $ 2.00 hardcover

Collins, Michael
"Mission to Mars" 1990
-Amazon used $ 0.80 hardcover

Cunningham, Walter, & Mickey Herskovitz
"The All-American Boys"
New York: Macmillan Co., 1977
-Amazon used $ 12.97 hardcover

Duke, Charlie & Dotty
"Moonwalker"
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1990
-Amazon used $ 22.70

Grissom, Betty, & Henry Still
"Starfall"
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974
-Amazon used $ 87.00 hardcover

Grissom, Virgil "Gus", & Jacob Hay
"Gemini!"
The Macmillan Co. - Collier-Macmillan, 1968
-Amazon used $ 45.68 hardcover

Irwin, James B. & William A. Emerson, Jr.
"To Rule the Night: The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irwin"
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1973; Boston: G.K. Hall, 1974
-Amazon used $ 6.00 hardcover, $ 0.99 paperback

Lind, Kathleen
"Don Lind: Mormon Astronaut" 1985
-Amazon used $ 5.81 hardcover

Lovell, Jim & Jeffrey Kluger
"Lost Moon: The Perilous Journey of Apollo 13" [The paperback is
titled "Apollo 13"]
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994
-Amazon used $ 1.86 hardcover, $ 0.01 paperback

Mullane, R. Mike
"Lift Off!: An Astronaut's Dream" 1994
-Amazon used $ 10.00 hardcover, $ 3.25 paperback

Mullane, R. Mike
"Do Your Ears Pop In Space?" 1997
-Amazon used $ 2.49

Nelson, Bill
"Mission : An American Congressman's Voyage to Space" 1988
-Amazon used $ 5.40 hardcover

Oberg, James E.
"Red Star in Orbit" 1981
-Amazon used $ 10.18 hardcover

Oberg, James E.
"Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside The U.S.-Russian Space Alliance" 2001
-Amazon used $ 10.81 hardcover

Oberg, James E.
"Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost" 1988
-Amazon used $ 4.45 hardcover

Pogue, William R.
"How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space?" 1985
-Amazon used $ 1.80 paperback

Ride, Sally & Tam O' Shaughnessy
"The Third Planet, Exploring The Earth From Space"
New York, Crown Publishing Inc., 1994
-Amazon used $ 5.00 hardcover

Ride, Sally & Susan Okie
"To Space and Back" 1989
-Amazon used $ 2.42 school & library binding, $ 1.47 paperback

Ride, Sally
"Voyager" 1992
-Amazon used $ 5.19 hardcover

Schirra, Walter M., Jr. & Richard N. Billings
"Schirra's Space"
Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988
-Amazon used $ 18.90 hardcover

Shepard, Alan, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbee & Howard Benedict
"Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon"
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing Inc., 1994
-Amazon used $ 1.74 hardcover

Slayton, Deke & Michael Cassutt
"Deke! US Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttle"
New York, Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Forge), 1994
-Amazon used $ 2.19 hardcover

Worden, Alfred M.
"A Flight to the Moon" 1974
-Amazon used $ 5.29 hardcover

Worden, Alfred M.
"Hello Earth: Greetings from Endeavour"
Los Angeles, CA: Nash Publishing Corp., 1974
-Amazon used $ 39.98 hardcover






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"Rusty B" wrote in message
om...
For used books, Amazon does not combine shipping. It's about $ 3.75
shipping per book (Media Mail).

What cheapskates! Do used books weigh more than new?
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