Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. a good solid copy with light fading on page ends, states first edition on copyright page, signed by Aldrin to previous owner on front end page. Jacket is edge worn and has large chip missing back cover at top edge. Some creasing and staining on inside. Signed by Author(s).
Inscribed by Aldrin on the ffep. Foxing to the top of the page ends.
Seller: Vivarium, LLC, Silverado, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 338pp. G/HC/DJ. Front flap of DJ creased. Otherwise excellent. Signed and inscribed by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a fine, obviously unread, hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a fine mylar protected DJ, black spine, 338 pages, 7.95 flap price with a red random house hand stamp on the bottom edge. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "To Meredith Butterton, Thanks for your service at Valley Forge, With best Wishes, Buzz Aldrin". Inscribed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Random House, New York. 1973. 338 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on the FFEP. Book Club Edition. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and creased to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Offsetting present to the FFEP. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. "We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator, " Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia's abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. EB; 8.3 X 4.9 X 1.5 inches; 338 pages; Signed by Author.
Language: English
Published by Random House Inc. New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394488326 ISBN 13: 9780394488325
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated first printing (In 1973 Random House used "First Edition" and the number 2 to designate a first printing, if "First Edition" is not present it's a 2nd printing at best) of a very good hardcover with bumps to all four corners and minor fading to the boards, in a very good dustjacket with minor wear and creasing to the extremities, one small closed tear and crease on the front cover. The story of astronaut "Buzz Aldrin's historic moon mission and the troubled personal odyssey which followed. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author on the ffep. Inscribed by Author.
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0394488326 ISBN 13: 9780394488325
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Signed
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Signed by both authors on first page, else text clean & bright; binding tight: vertical crease to price-clipped inner front flap of dustjacket, two 4" creases to rear flap of dustjacket; minor edgewear along top & bottom spine edges of dustjacket; else minor wear to dustjacket. 338 pages. Illustrated. Signed by Author.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy with faint sunning to bottom board edges in a Fine, bright unclipped dust jacket. This unique copy is signed by astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper, and Scott Carpenter, and (possibly) jet combat veteran Tom Neal who trained the original Mercury 7 astronauts to fly the F-106 jet. Colonel Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, a member of the Apollo 11 crew, tells about his adventures on the moon, and about the aftermath when, as an international celebrity, he has to face the consequences of sudden fame, its rewards and its penalties. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Random House, New York, 1973
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on the front free endpaper, "To Jeanie & Bill Taylor, with best wishes, Buzz Aldrin." Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written with Wayne Warga. It was the basis for the Return to Earth is a 1976 film starring Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11.
Published by Random House, New York, 1973
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin and inscribed by co-author Wayne Warga on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written with Wayne Warga. It was the basis for the Return to Earth is a 1976 film starring Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11.
Published by Random House, New York, 1973
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the front free endpaper and inscribed by the co-author "To Jerry A. Griffin with best wishes Wayne Warga." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written with Wayne Warga. It was the basis for the Return to Earth is a 1976 film starring Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11.
Published by Random House, New York, 1973
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Written with Wayne Warga. It was the basis for the Return to Earth is a 1976 film starring Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11.