Moon: Man’s Greatest Adventure.

[NEIL ARMSTONG] BEDINI, Silvio A; Wernher Von Braun; Fred L. Whipple. Edited by Davis Thomas. .

Item Number: 117138

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1970.

First edition of this impressive illustrated history of man’s quest for the moon. Folio, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs, maps and charts. Presentation copy, inscribed by the first man to walk on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, on the title page, “To Stephen Adamson — With Best Wishes — Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11.” Containing the essays “Man and the Moon” by Silvio A. Bedini, “A Step Toward Immortality” by Wernher von Braun, and “The Moon Yields Up Her Secrets” by Fred L. Whipple, among others. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Book design by Nai Y. Chang. Books signed by Armstrong are rare.

Mans fascination with the moon through forty centuries of recorded history is the subject of this definitive volume commemorating what is perhaps the greatest accomplishment in the annals of human endeavor - the conquest of lunar space. In text and magnificently reproduced photographs, MOON traces the long history of man's striving to reach out to another planetary body, an effort that culminated in the Apollo 11 moon landing and Neil Armstrong's historic words as he first set foot on the lunar surface, "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for all mankind."