1 / 32
Sold Out
Please check with your nearest TASCHEN store just in case
XXL
XXL books are a minimum 39 cm (15.4 in.)
Norman Mailer. MoonFire
4500This edition is sold out. However, occasionally, copies do become available again. Please register on our waiting list so we can inform you if this edition, or anything similar comes up.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, TASCHEN has paired Norman Mailer’s seminal text with spectacular photography to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time. Each Collector’s Edition is packaged in a custom-molded white resin box and comes with a framed photographic print of Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon, signed by the astronaut himself.
Limited Collector's Edition of 1,957 numbered copies, each with signed photographic print
Limited Collector's Edition of 1,957 numbered copies, each with signed photographic print
Edition of 1,957Hardcover in box with framed print, 14.4 x 17.3 in., 24.34 lb, 350 pages
“The greatest event of the last century as told by one of America’s greatest writers of the last century.”
“Mailer’s original text is a classic of space literature which searches for the moral and philosophical meaning of landing on the moon. But it’s the design of the book, by Marc Newson, that takes your breath away… Probably the most extravagant expression of TASCHEN’s Collector’s Edition philosophy: make it big, make it exclusive, make it unlike anything else.”
“If I ever had a dream that I could see in one volume the feeling of what Apollo should encompass, you have accomplished that.... The whole design, the choreography, the sense of pace, is absolutely magnificent. So many books have come out over the decades, but this actually purveys the feeling of that time radiantly. I think it will hold up over many, many the years, and of course having Mailer's writing is graceful.”
Sold Out
Please check with your nearest TASCHEN store just in case
XXL
XXL books are a minimum 39 cm (15.4 in.)
Norman Mailer. MoonFire
4500“And the Moon Came Nearer...”
A unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, TASCHEN has paired Norman Mailer’s seminal text with spectacular photography—from the archives of NASA, LIFE magazine, and many other sources—to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time.
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy’s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of $ 24 billion, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer.
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer was hired by LIFE in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. His three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece LIFE had published. He enhanced and extended his reportage with deeper reflection in the brilliantly crafted book, Of a Fire on the Moon, excerpted here for the first time. Equally adept at examining the science of space travel and the psychology of the men involved—from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, to the crucial NASA support staff, to the three astronauts—Mailer provides provocative and trenchant insights into this epoch-making event.
Illustrating this volume are hundreds of the best photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many of them previously unpublished, these images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon’s surface, and the world’s jubilant reaction to the landing. This edition includes an original introduction by Colum McCann and captions by leading Apollo 11 experts, explaining the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log and publications of the day, and post-flight astronaut interviews.
Collector’s Edition No. 1–1,957
No. 1,958–1,969 LUNAR ROCK EDITION
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy’s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of $ 24 billion, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer.
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer was hired by LIFE in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. His three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece LIFE had published. He enhanced and extended his reportage with deeper reflection in the brilliantly crafted book, Of a Fire on the Moon, excerpted here for the first time. Equally adept at examining the science of space travel and the psychology of the men involved—from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, to the crucial NASA support staff, to the three astronauts—Mailer provides provocative and trenchant insights into this epoch-making event.
Illustrating this volume are hundreds of the best photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many of them previously unpublished, these images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon’s surface, and the world’s jubilant reaction to the landing. This edition includes an original introduction by Colum McCann and captions by leading Apollo 11 experts, explaining the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log and publications of the day, and post-flight astronaut interviews.
- Limited to 1,969 copies in two editions
- Each copy includes a Plexiglas-framed, ready-to-hang archival-quality numbered photographic print, produced using the revolutionary new Skia printing technique, and signed by Buzz Aldrin. This shot of Aldrin walking on the Moon is the definitive image of the Apollo 11 mission,and one of the most iconic photos ever taken
- Hardcover in box with print
- XXL format: 36.5 x 44 cm (14.4 x 17.3 in.); with framed print: 32.5 x 40 cm (12.8 x 15.7 in.)
- 348 pages, including 4 fold-outs
- Utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology, no expense has been spared to restore the original photographic materials to the highest possible standards
- English language edition
Collector’s Edition No. 1–1,957
- Limited to 1,957 numbered copies
- Packaged in a custom-molded white resin box with a convex Plexiglas window
No. 1,958–1,969 LUNAR ROCK EDITION
- Marc Newson designed this special edition of only 12 copies
- Each copy comes with a unique specimen of lunar rock, ranging in weight from a slice of the moon at 0.4 grams to 30.34 grams, one of the largest lunar meteorites ever found on Earth
- Specifications and prices available on request
The author
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) was one of the 20th century’s most influential writers, and one of America’s most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The contributors
Buzz Aldrin made history as one of the first men to walk on the Moon. A graduate of West Point, he earned his Sc.D. in Astronautics from MIT before joining NASA, and the Gemini XII and Apollo 11 missions. He is the founder of the Human Spaceflight Institute, a nonprofit committed to advancing human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit.
Colum McCann is the author of eight books, including Let the Great World Spin. He has written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Times (London), The Irish Times, and La República.
Norman Mailer. MoonFire
Edition of 1,957Hardcover in box with framed print, 36.5 x 44 cm, 11.04 kg, 350 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-1179-7
Edition: EnglishDownload product images here
5
What a book! What an edition!
January 9, 2024
Very proud and happy owner of this magnificent and historic piece of art! Thank you TASCHEN! Thank you Benedikt!