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The Right Stuff
de Wolfe, Tom
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0374250324
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250324
- Librería
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. The definitive book on the early days of the US space program, from Chuck Yeager & Joe Walker through the Mercury astronauts. Basis for the 1983 movie of the same name. This is the true FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1979 (with all appropriate points of issue). Hardcover 8vo has light gray cloth-covered boards with silver, red, & blue lettering & design to spine & facsimile author's in silver to front. Condition is solidly VG: completely clean & bright inside, with mild dust dulling/light soil to external fore edge. The page edges here also show some small dents/nicks (see photo 2). Former owner's name to second front endpaper in small pen & their clear address label inside front cover. Very mild foxing to top outside page edges. The unclipped DJ is Good+: bright & colorful, with mild edgewear, heaviest at top edge, where head of spine shows small chips & a 1" diagonal tear descending onto front; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day
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
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021762
- Título
- The Right Stuff
- Autor
- Wolfe, Tom
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374250324
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250324
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- ASTRONAUT MERCURY UNITED STATES AMERICA FLIGHT SPACE MOON ORBIT AMERICAN PILOT SOUND BARRIER CAPE CANAVERAL KENNEDY
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; History;
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- 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...
