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  Easton Press, Alan Bean "Apollo" Signed Limited Edition
 
 


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Publisher: Easton Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Full genuine leather
Signed: Signed by author
Edition: Signed Limited Edition


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Product Code: EP860


  
Description
 
Alan Bean
"APOLLO: An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker"

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1998 Hardcover Full-Leather. Over-sized leather-bound edition. Limited/Numbered. Signed by the Author. Beautiful Limited Edition #1711 of only 3,000 copy from Easton Press. This book has been personally signed by astronaut, moonwalker Alan Bean. A mint condition harcover leather-bound heirloom.

This volume is bound in genuine high quality blue leather and the spine and cover are decorated with precious 22kt gold. This book is printed on acid-neutral paper that will last for generations. The pages are gilded along all three edges and they are stitched, not simply glued, into the binding. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press., collector notes, and an extra unattached bookplate for your own personalization.

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:

    * Premium Leather
    * Silk Moire Endleaves
    * Distinctive Cover Design
    * Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
    * Satin Ribbon Page Marker
    * Gilded Page Edges
    * Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
    * Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
    * Beautiful Illustrations

Condition

Very Fine condition. This is a wonderful bright clean copy in MINT condition. It has been well-cared for, protected from any potential damage. The binding is uniform and tight, pages clean, and with no scuffs, marks, dents, bruises, etc. This book stands out as having had exemplary care. No markings, writings, or stampings. No bookplates attached. No discoloration to gold design pattern.

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Additional Book Information

When NASA sent the crew of Apollo 12 to the moon, they may not have realized that they were giving an artist the vision that would carry him through a lifetime of painting. The artist, of course, was astronaut Alan Bean, whose trip to the moon with pals Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon sunk so deeply into his brain that he's been trying to get it down on canvas ever since. He even mixes moon dust and bits of charred Apollo 12 heat shield into his paints to capture a bit of the Ocean of Storms in each image. The astronauts Bean paints are brave, exuberant, and all-American, right down to the reflections of Old Glory in their mirrored visors. His moon is surprisingly colorful and dreamlike, a magical place for jumping higher than you ever did before, racing around in the lunar rover, and swatting golf balls into orbit. Apollo: An Eyewitness Account, coauthored with space expert Andrew Chaikin, is filled with Bean's riveting stories and paintings, recording a long, successful career as an explorer-artist. He recreates the drama and brash enthusiasm of the Apollo program in bold strokes

From Publishers Weekly

With the descent of the lunar lander Intrepid, Apollo 12 astronaut Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon. Since his retirement from NASA in 1981, Bean has devoted himself to his realist paintings; this handsome volume allows him to display both his artistic skills and his orbital experience, reproducing dozens of Bean's paintings of lunar surfaces, moonwalks, astronaut gear and so on, alongside a blow-by-blow narrative of Apollo 12, which Chaikin (The National Air and Space Museum Book of Aviation and Space Flight) has written very much from Bean's perspective. Chaikin and Bean describe the thrills and setbacks on the latter's path from naval aviator to astronaut, his first view of the blue-and-white Earth from 293,000 miles and the technical problems of making sure an American flag stays up on the moon. Final chapters track Bean's adventures with the paint and canvas he took up in 1974 ("Flying skills are so much like painting skills, it's amazing"), the exploits and close calls of other astronauts and Bean's hopes for his art and for space exploration. Short paragraphs in which Bean explains his pictures' subjects and techniques alternate with the longer segments of narrative; this format can make the whole book seem scattered, though the images, and the anecdotes, retain undeniable power. The meticulously detailed paintings themselves add warmth and a mid-19th-century softness to the photos and equipment on which many of them are based.
 
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