COLLINS, Michael; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh.
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1974.
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"I am certain, if everyone could see the Earth floating just outside their windows, every day would be EarthDay. There are few things more fragile or more beautiful than Earth": First Edition of Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey; Inscribed by Astronaut Michael Collins
First edition, first printing of one of the finest memoirs of space travel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "All the Best to Robert Shaw from Mike Collins." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert T. McCall. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh. A very sharp example.
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys was in 1974, and it is an autobiographical account by the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 astronaut. Collins writes his own work and does not hire ghost writers, explaining that "[n]o matter how good the ghost, I am convinced that a book loses realism when an interpreter stands between the storyteller and his audience" (Collins, 2001). Indeed, Collins writing has been called "the best-written book yet by any of the astronauts" by Time magazine. The New York Times Book Review said, "No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly.”
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey.
$1,250.00
In Stock
