Vintage 1982 First Edition “Space” by James Michener

Offered is a First Edition of James Michener’s novel “SPACE”.

Michener, James A. SPACE. New York: Random House, [1982]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first forty years of the American Space program told as fictional narrative.

New York Times review (excerpt) 1982:
The time that Mr. Michener writes of begins properly in the closing months of World War II. Rocket technology was being put to its first ambitious test by the Germans at Peenemunde. The seeds of the cold war that would dictate the pace and character of early space flight were germinating. And most of the actors of the drama, the pilots and engineers and politicians, were finding their vocations.

The author has, as usual, done his research well. He has also managed to develop through his sprawling narrative all of the major political, social and technological themes that resonated during the years of the first exploration of space. Thus, if ”Space” becomes a best seller, as may be expected on the basis of his past record, a wide audience will be exposed to a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that some day could be the stuff of myth or at least of grand chronicles in the tradition of Hakluyt.

640 pages, measures 9.5″ long, 6.5″ wide, 2.25″ deep