Magnificent Desolation / Buzz Aldrin SIGNED Collectors Edition Easton Press
Item History & Price
This auction is for an opened copy of Buzz Aldrin's best-selling memoir "Magnificent Desolation - The Long Journey Home From the Moon", the fascinating autobiography of the famous NASA astronaut, member of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission and the second human to step on the Moon.
Magnificent Desolation - The Long Journey Home From the Moon / Buzz Aldrin The flight of Apollo 11 made Aldrin one of the most famous persons on our planet, yet few people ...know the rest of this true American hero’s story. In Magnificent Desolation, Aldrin not only gives us a harrowing first-person account of the lunar landing that came within seconds of failure and the ultimate insider’s view of life as one of the superstars of America’s space program, he also opens up with remarkable candor about his more personal trials–and eventual triumphs–back on Earth. From the glory of being part of the mission that fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon before the decade was out, Aldrin returned home to an Air Force career stripped of purpose or direction, other than as a public relations tool that NASA put to relentless use in a seemingly nonstop world tour. The twin demons of depression and alcoholism emerged – the first of which Aldrin confronted early and publicly, and the second of which he met with denial until it nearly killed him. He burned through two marriages, his Air Force career came to an inglorious end, and he found himself selling cars for a living when he wasn’t drunkenly wrecking them. Redemption came when he finally embraced sobriety, gained the love of a woman, Lois, who would become the great joy of his life, and dedicated himself to being a tireless advocate for the future of space exploration – not only as a scientific endeavor but also as a thriving commercial enterprise.
The book appears unread, and in Like New condition. It is signed by Buzz Aldrin on a preliminary page. Additionally, a Certificate of Authenticity, laid in, is signed by Buzz Aldrin and his wife, Lois Aldrin, fittingly, on the Fourth of July, 2009.
c2009, p2009, not quite 7" deep, 10" tall and 1.5" thick with 326 pages
This Easton Press Signed Collectors Edition is bound in leather, with a ribbed spine, stamped in gold, with gilded page edges, moire endpapers, and smyth sewn signatures on acid-free paper with a satin ribbon page marker.
