ALDRIN, Buzz. Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Signed by Buzz Aldrin with PSA/DNA authentication sticker)

New York: Harmony Books, 2009. First edition. 8vo. pp. [x], 326. Publisher’s black cloth-backed boards, title lettered in silver on spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Some light spotting to upper edge and preliminary leaves, otherwise a very good copy.

Signed by Buzz Aldrin in blue ink on the half-title, with PSA/DNA authentication sticker (AN51396).

Aldrin’s memoir, published forty years after Apollo 11, recounting not only the historic lunar mission but also his subsequent life and the difficulties of adjusting to life after extraordinary public achievement. Magnificent Desolation takes its title from Aldrin’s celebrated description of the lunar landscape shortly after stepping onto the Moon on 20 July 1969. One of only twelve people to have walked on the Moon, Aldrin served as lunar module pilot alongside Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins on Apollo 11.

A desirable signed first edition with third-party authentication.

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