Apollo An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean with Andrew Chaikin
Connecticut, USA: The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998. Quarto, navy-blue cloth, spine embossed with silver lettering, front cover embossed with silver image and lettering, 176 pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout with numerous full-colour reproductions of the author's paintings. Very light spotting on edges of text block, some foxing on title page, very light foxing on leaf edges, first leaf has a "50 Years NASA" sticker, edges of dust-jacket lightly worn, light foxing on inside of dust-jacket; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A very personal record of Alan Bean's experiences in space. In 1963, Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to set foot on the moon. In 1973, he served as spacecraft commander of the Skylab II Mission, logging a record-breaking fifty-nine days and 24,400,000 miles in space. In this extraordinary volume, Bean, with writer Andrew Chaikin, presents his highly accomplished and inspiring artwork depicting his observations of space and the astronauts he worked with. Item #4795
Price (AUD): $100.00