So I asked a few in December of 1972 when they gathered at Cape Canaveral to watch the last mission to the moon, Apollo 17.” I would ask a few astronauts and find out. 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 he EXACT book you will receive from us-never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (PST) later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.Wolfe decided, he says rather disingenuously, “on the simplest approach possible. Very mild foxing to top outside page edges. Former owner's name to second front endpaper in small pen & their clear address label inside front cover. The page edges here also show some small dents/nicks (see photo 2). Condition is solidly VG: completely clean & bright inside, with mild dust dulling/light soil to external fore edge.
Hardcover 8vo has light gray cloth-covered boards with silver, red, & blue lettering & design to spine & facsimile author's in silver to front. This is the true FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1979 (with all appropriate points of issue).
Basis for the 1983 movie of the same name. The definitive book on the early days of the US space program, from Chuck Yeager & Joe Walker through the Mercury astronauts. The inner world of the early astronauts, including John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and others. In 1983, the book was adapted as a successful feature film. Famously following their training and unofficial, even foolhardy, exploits, he likened these heroes to "single combat champions", going forth to battle in the space race on behalf of their country. In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the pilots who became America's first astronauts.
His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim, became a commercial success, and was adapted as a major motion picture. He began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, but achieved national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters), and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. (born March 2, 1931) is an American author and journalist, best known for his association with and influence over the New Journalism literary movement, in which literary techniques are used extensively and traditional values of journalistic objectivity and evenhandedness are rejected. 436, top edge of DJ somewhat worn, small tear at top of spine.
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