Moon Man's Greatest Adventure by Von Braun (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oversized hardcover with DJ. Blue cloth over boards with silver stamping on front cover and spine. DJ with white lettering over photograph of moon's surface; protected by plastic covering. No publication date that I can find. 267 pages. In good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked, though cloth along bottom edges of covers appears faded. A bit of bumping along spine as well as at corners. Stamping is clear and bright. DJ is clean and in good condition; slightly toned along back cover but otherwise unmarked. Light shelf-wear along edges. Fits snug to boards. Pages are free of marks or tears, with bright color plates throughout. Binding remains strong. This book is quite large and heavy; extra shipping may be required for Priority or International delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: near very good. First Edition. First impression. Folio (395 x 304mm). Pp 267 illustrated in colour and b&w throughout with a number of tipped-in colour plates and a large foldout. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. A clean unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is a little rubbed at the edges and shows wear at the head and tail of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Unstated.

Condition: very good, very good. 12.5" x 15.5", 267, profusely illus. (many color, many tipped in), maps, endpaper maps, charts, chronology, text creased at top inner corner. DJ in plastic (plastic somewhat wrinkled). In text and photographs, this book traces the long history of man's striving to reach out to the moon, an effort that culminated in the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 12 inches by 15 inches. 267 pages. Illustrated endpaper. 278 illustrations, including 143 in full color (from DJ front flap) and fold-out mission diagram. Some illustrations are tipped in (two have some looseness. Includes essays entitled Man and the Moon by Silvio A. Bedini, A Step Toward Immortality by Wernher von Braun, and The Moon Gives Up Its Secrets by Fred Whipple. Other sections are entitled: Introduction, The Space Age, Apollo 11 To the Moon, Moon Talk, The Moon Revisited [about the Apollo 12 mission], and Space Age Chronology. There is a listing of Maps and Charts and Photo and Chart Credits. The title page has the signatures in ink of Silvio A. Bedini and the crews of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Alan Bean). The pages are made of high gloss paper, and ink can bead before drying. It has been reported that NASA astronauts were provided with signature stamps they could personally use, in addition to, or instead of, personally signing items. In this book, there are variations in the color in some signatures, such as Dick Gordon's, which make his signature more likely to be personally signed than personally stamped. It is clear is that each of the six astronauts personally signed or stamped their signatures on this book, most likely at the same time. The book has been clearly signed by the author Silvio A. Bedini. This is a wonderful book that is focused on the missions of Apollo 11 and 12, and has this signature connection to each crew member. Rare in any signed form. This book traces the long history of man's striving to reach out to the moon, an effort that culminated in the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 moon landings. Silvio A. Bedini (January 17, 1917 - November 14, 2007) was an American historian, specializing in early scientific instruments. He was Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, where he served on the professional staff for twenty-five years, retiring in 1987. This publication date of this book is listed as 1973 in Dr. Bedini's bibliography, but elsewhere the publication dates of 1970 and 1972 have also been given. Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 - August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield, which protects spacecraft from impact by small particles by breaking them up. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 1912 - 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. Von Braun served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. In 1967, von Braun was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, and in 1975, he received the National Medal of Science. Very good (in a plastic sleeve).