Description
The “Special Edition” of The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, a promotional issue for the first paperback edition from Bantam Books.
Octavo, [10], 368pp, [6]. Gray paperback. Never read. Stated “Special Edition / Not For Sale” on the front cover, with promotional bag. On back cover the release date for the first “Bantam Books” edition of The Right Stuff “is due for release on October 22, 1980”.
This copy is signed by the author on the title page.
In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe describes the skills necessary for astronauts to participate in space exploration. He researched and interviewed multiple sources to write this piece, focusing on postwar work on rockets and the astronauts chosen for the inaugural Project Mercury at NASA. The piece was adapted for a movie in 1983, starring Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, and Dennis Quaid. It won four Academy Awards.
