The Stardust Voyages

Title: The Stardust Voyages
Genre: Science Fiction
Author: Stephen Tall (1908-1981)
Illustrator: Uncredited, likely Richard M. Powers (1921-1996)
Publisher: Berkley
Year: 1975
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback, mass market
Provenance: "Dan" written in pencil on first page. Book also has part of the back cover cut out.
From the Foreword: "What follows here are merely a few little incidents, small bits and pieces that only hint at the adventure, the labor, the imagination, and the fantastic variety of experience that accrued and was expended and enjoyed in this, the saga of Earth's first starship."
Random Passage: "Pegleg is nothing if not persistent, so he did exactly what I knew he would do. He reserved a scoutboat 'for geological reconnaissance along the Olympic range' and, by his seniority, had grounded one set of cloud chasers. I heard them grumbling about it. But the request was legitimate and Pegleg never hogged equipment."
Notes: Collection of six short stories, all set in the 22nd century, originally published in various Sci Fi periodicals in 1966-74. Stephen Tall was a pseudonym used by Compton Newby Crook, an American Ornithology professor.