Hardcover 8vo has light gray cloth-covered boards with silver, red, & blue lettering & design to spine & facsimile author's in silver to front. This is the true FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1979 (with all appropriate points of issue). Basis for the 1983 movie of the same name. The definitive book on the early days of the US space program, from Chuck Yeager & Joe Walker through the Mercury astronauts. Listed by Modern Library as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century. 'The Right Stuff,' he explains, 'became a story of why men were willing-willing?-delighted!-to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero.' 'One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril.' (The Boston Globe). In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979-the year the book appeared-Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Most likely a unique example with this collection of signatures. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Additionally signed by Chuck Yeager and Tom Wolfe on the title page. Signed by the Mercury Seven (minus Gus Grissom who passed away by the time of publication).

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