The Right Stuff
de Tom Wolfe
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fair/None
- Librería
-
Taos, New Mexico, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
This hard back first edition book by now deceased Tom Wolfe is i fair condition with creasing in the spine and fading along the book's canvas covers. The book's dust jacket is missing, and the end sheets are also fading around the book's top and bottom edges. The pages are slightly yellowed with age but a free of marks, creases, and stains on their faces. From a side view with the book closed, you can see some splatter stains that are quite minimal.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Great Used Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- ONL Wolfe
- Título
- The Right Stuff
- Autor
- Tom Wolfe
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Binding is loosening at top and base of spine
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- None
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Páginas
- 436
- Tamaño
- 5.75 x 8.5
- Peso
- 2.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- NASA, Astronautica, Science, Astronauts, Literary Journalism, The New Journalism
Términos de venta
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Taos, New Mexico
Sobre Great Used Books
Great Used Books has been a hub for used book sales in Taos, New Mexico for almost 30 years. One of the striking features of the store is its organization by genre and author. Because of Taos's unique metaphysical community, the store features a vast selection of metaphysical and new ages works. As well, the store has a great selection of fiction, non- fiction, sci-fi, and regional works about the southwest. Stop by and meet Linda, the owner, and Sammy, the best read cat in town!
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
