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Of a Fire on the Moon
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Of a Fire on the Moon Hardcover - 1970

by Mailer, Norman

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Little Brown and Company, 1970. first. hardcover. very good: spine slightly cocked, evidence of former owner's card (glue residue on FEP) otherwise unmarked text. Tape residue on cover/good: closed tear on top of spine, creased and wrinkled at top of back cover of DJ, slight scuffing.. first edition of Norman Mailer's account of NASA and the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, first serialized in Life magazine in 1969 and 1970. #00018.
Used - very good: spine slightly cocked, evidence of former owner's card (glue residue on FEP) otherwise unmarked text. Tape residue on
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  • Title Of a Fire on the Moon
  • Author Mailer, Norman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition first
  • Condition Used - very good: spine slightly cocked, evidence of former owner's card (glue residue on FEP) otherwise unmarked text. Tape residue on
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Date 1970
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 84

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About this book

For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction—wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. 

A classic chronicle of America’s reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon, compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping firsthand dispatches from inside NASA’s clandestine operations in Houston and Cape Kennedy; technical insights into the magnitude of their awe-inspiring feat; and prescient meditations that place the event in human context as only Mailer could.


First Edition Identification

Little Brown and Co. published a First Edition, First Printing in Boston & New York, 1970. 


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