“THAT WAS THE DAY THREE AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS… PUT MAN ON THE MOON”: FIRST ON THE MOON, INSCRIBED BY NEIL ARMSTRONG

(ALDRIN, Buzz) (ARMSTRONG, Neil) (COLLINS, Michael) FARMER, Gene. First on the Moon. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $11,500.

First edition of the Apollo XI astronauts’ own account of the first manned lunar landing, inscribed on the half title, "To B— T—. Sincere Good Wishes, Neil Armstrong."

Apollo 11 Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon, and when Armstrong became the first human to touch the Moon's surface, he famously said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." "While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) 'Eagle' to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) 'Columbia' in lunar orbit" (NASA). This first lunar landing remains a major landmark in U.S. history. The Apollo program—the crowning achievement of which was the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969—endures as "the greatest human adventure; the Odyssey of the millennium" (Burrows, 433). With 29 pages of black-and-white photographs and epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Dust jacket with one tiny closed tear to spine head, slight delamination to rear panel. A near-fine copy.