Tom Wolfe. First edition, stated first printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Both price-clipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Jacket design by Kiyoshi Kanai. No writing or markings found in the book, 436 pp. Really clean!
Wolfe explores the Mercury Project, NASA's first manned space missions, and the origins of the astronaut program. The book is presented in the publisher's original cloth boards, with red, blue, and silver stamped titles to the spine, and the original publisher's dust jacket. In 1972, journalist Tom Wolfe covered the launch of the final Moon mission, Apollo 17, for Rolling Stone. He wrote a four-part article about the astronauts for the magazine, entitled "Post-Orbital Remorse," which appeared in Rolling Stone throughout 1973.
"One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril." (The Boston Globe). Basis for the acclaimed 1983 Academy Award winning film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sam Shepard and Ed Harris. Listed by Modern Library as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century.
