Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov inscribed and signed book “ morning of the space age”

Morning of the Space Age: [Collection] / compiled by Andrianov B.V., Barashev P.R., Azizyan A.K. et al., photomontages by A.A. Zhitomirsky, design by N.N. Simagina. Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1961. 762, [2] p., 61 p. ill.: ill., maps, graphs, music. 26.9×21 cm. In publisher’s cloth binding. Copy without dust jacket and record. Partial fading of binding, block in excellent condition.

On the title page there is an expanded dedication: “To Colonel General Andrei Gerasimovich Rytov in memory of the first manned flights into space. With sincere gratitude for the attention and help to us, Soviet cosmonauts. 26.12.61 Gagarin Titov". Andrey Gerasimovich Rytov (1907-1967) - Soviet political worker, Colonel General of Aviation (1961). After the Great Patriotic War, he served in the highest military-political positions in the Air Force: Chief of the Directorate of Political Agencies of the Air Force of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and the Navy; since 1951 - member of the Military Council of the Air Defense Forces; in 1953-1967 - Chief of the Political Directorate and member of the Military Council of the USSR Air Force.

Collection about the flights of Yu. A. Gagarin and G. S. Titov; contains various documents, materials from press conferences, speeches of the country's leaders and cosmonauts, telegrams from heads of state, addresses from public and political figures, famous personalities and ordinary citizens from all over the world, poems, songs, as well as rare photographs and collages.

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