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The Right Stuff
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374250332
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250331
- Seller
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Lancaster, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0374250332 . Signed, inscribed and dated by author on half title page. First edition thus. Hard cover published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1983. This is the first printing of the new edition. Light gray covers with silver stamped signature of author on front and blue and red lettering with silver stars on spine. Upper corner of front cover is bumped and bent, with some wrinkling. Other corners are bumped slightly. Name of a prior owner is written at top of half title page. Side edges of pages have a small stain near back side. Top edges of pages have slight smudging. Book is in good plus condition. Dust jacket has some edge wear, a small tear and crease at top of spine, and some wear at top front corner. DJ has slight scuffing and is in good condition. 8vo, 436 pages, 1.4 lb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages; Signed by Author .
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
- Inside the Covers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MSW11470
- Title
- The Right Stuff
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0374250332
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250331
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- 0374250332, Astronaut, American History, Space, Test Pilot, NASA
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
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- New
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- Half Title
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- Title Page
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- Good+
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