Tall 8vo, orange sewn paper wrappers, silver stamped titles, French folds, uncut page edges, 13pp, [2]. Limited gift edition of 100 copies, this copy numbered 30 to the colophon page. Nearly fine to extremities with the slightest wear to corners of wrappers. Tissue guards to two color illustration plates are tipped in, separate. A fine letterpress book printed, designed and illustrated by the New Jersey Carmelite monastery press ‘to commemorate man’s first flight to the moon and those men of great faith Colonel Borman, Captain Lovell and Lieutenant Colonel Anders, Christmas 1968.’ Prints the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, followed Colonel Borman’s prayer. Handbound in linweave spectra paper. A fine example of a relatively contemporary monastic private press keepsake, and scarce thus. A fine copy in shrink wraps.