The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374250324
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250324
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
First Printing stated. Personal inscription to half-title page by Apollo 8 Astronaut William "Bill" Anders who took the iconic earthrise photograph as one of the first to orbit the moon. In light grey cloth with replica of author's signature, title and design motif in silver, red and blue foil. Shallow moisture stain to bottoms of boards and bottom page ends within an inch of spine. Small faint stain to half-title page. Jacket is unclipped ($12.95) with chipping and short tears mostly at spine ends and adjacent portions of panels. General edgewear, creasing and nicks to jacket with some very shallow moisture staining inside bottom edge of jacket at spine and panels ends.
Synopsis
What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes. The first Americans in space - battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching. The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB004470TW
- Title
- The Right Stuff
- Author
- Tom Wolfe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374250324
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250324
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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