Return to Earth

E-290: Random House. Very Good. 1973. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Random House, New York. 1973. 338 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on the FFEP. Book Club Edition. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and creased to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Offsetting present to the FFEP. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator, ” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. EB; 8.3 X 4.9 X 1.5 inches; 338 pages; Signed by Author .