The Right Stuff, Signed by Tom Wolfe, First Edition in Original Dust Jacket, 1979

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Signed by the author at the half-title. Octavo. In original cloth boards, titled in red, blue, and silver, and original publisher's dust jacket. Presented is a first edition printing of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. In his book, Wolfe explores the Mercury Project, NASA's first manned space missions, and the origins of the astronaut program. This book was published in New York by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, in 1979. It is signed by Wolfe with a dramatic paraph on the half title page, in black felt tipped ink. The book is presented in the publisher’s original cloth boards, with red, blue, and silver stamped titles to the spine, and the original publisher’s dust jacket.  In 1972, journalist Tom Wolfe covered the launch of the final Moon mission, Apollo 17, for Rolling Stone. He wrote a four-part article about the astronauts for the magazine, entitled “Post-Orbital Remorse,” which appeared in Rolling Stone throu