random house e 101 (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Random House, New York. 1983. 243 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine ends have closed tears present). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Pastedowns lightly soiled. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn moreand steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US championand Russia awaits . . . E-290; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 243 pages.