The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Space Race.

CERNAN, Eugene and Don Davis.

$200.00

Item Number: 147252

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

First edition, early printing of this revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American space program from one of its pioneers. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Jay & Joan. Best wishes, Gene Cernan.” Additionally signed by NASA Geologist Farouk El-Baz on the front free endpaper, “All good wishes Frank El-Baz.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Some bumping to the crown and foot of the spine with a publishing error that slightly extended page 181. Slight rubbing and creasing to the extremities of the dust jacket with a miniscule closed tear to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Storrings.

Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of space flight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to the moment when he left man's last footprint on the Moon as commander of Apollo 17. "Gene Cernan reaches deep into his innermost being to reveal with remarkable candor his reactions to the trials and triumphs of a pioneer astronaut" (Walter Cronkite).