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Rare Apollo 11 Crew Photograph; Signed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin
ARMSTRONG, Neil; Michael Collins; Buzz Aldrin.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph.
1969.
Rare large signed photograph of the Apollo 11 crew. Color photograph of the Apollo 11 crew posing in their white space suits against a lunar backdrop. Boldly signed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. Double-matted and framed. In fine condition. Neil Armstrong's signature was acquired at his home in Lebanon, Ohio, in June 1986, after his return from Washington following his involvement with the Rogers Commission Report; and the Collins and Aldrin signatures were procured through the mail that same year. The photograph measures 9.75 inches by 7.75 inches. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 15.75 inches. Rare…
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 147310
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"I never really thought of myself as a freak, ya know...but I Love to Freak!": First Edition of Easy Rider; Signed by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson
FONDA, Peter.
Easy Rider.
New York: Signet, 1969.
First edition of the complete script, with a selection of black white and color stills, interviews and articles. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. Boldly signed by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson on the title page. Edited by Nancy Hardin and Marilyn Schlossberg. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed by the three stars of this iconic film.
Price: $12,800.00 Item Number: 147817
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Signed and Dated by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
DUNCAN, Dayton; Ken Burns; Stephen E. Ambrose; Erica Funkhouser; William Least Heat-Moon.
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Early printing of this illustrated history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Royal octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, brilliantly illustrated with two maps and more than 150 illustrations. Signed on the half-title page by the authors in the year of publication, "Dayton Duncan Dec. 7, 1997" and "Ken Burns Dec. 7, 1997 Walpole, N.H." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 147298
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"One of the 100 best books of any kind of the 20th century": First Edition of the author's Masterpiece The Origins of Totalitarianism; Inscribed by Hannah Arendt
ARENDT, Hannah.
The Origins of Totalitarianism.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951.
First edition of this masterpiece, by one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Hannah Arendt on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $28,000.00 Item Number: 147887
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"Only if we understand the nature of warfare in the spirit of Clausewitz can we hope to maintain our existence in case necessity should once again force the sword into our hands": First English Edition of Carl Von Clausewitz's Principles of War
VON CLAUSEWITZ, Carl Philipp Gottfried. Translated by Hans. W. Gatzke .
Principles of War.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943.
First English edition of Clausewitz's Principles, a condensed version of the theories he ultimately expanded upon in his epic military classic On War. Octavo, original half cloth over stiff paper boards. Translated and edited with an Introduction by Hans. W. Gatzke. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147891
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First Edition of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War
SHERMAN, Philemon Tecumseh [William Tecumseh Sherman].
General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Thirty-eighth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis, Missouri.
New York: Robert Grier Cooke, 1908.
First edition of this biographical address of the author's father, delivered at the Thirty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Octavo, original wrappers. Author's card tipped in, "With the Compliments of the Author 15 William Street, New York City." In near fine condition with a few small losses to the extremities of the wrappers. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145970
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Autograph From "one of the most influential figures in human history" Charles Darwin
DARWIN, Charles.
Charles Darwin Autograph.
1880.
Rare autograph from Charles Darwin, boldly signed, "Charles Darwin, Down, Kent, March 17th 1880." Matted and framed with a portrait of Darwin. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 12.25 inches by 19 inches. A remarkable presentation.
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 147292
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Rare Original Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Design Sketch; Signed by Him
LAGERFELD, Karl.
Karl Lagerfeld Signed Original Fashion Design Sketch.
Rare original fashion design sketch done and signed by legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Mixed-media full-body sketch of a female model wearing a multi-buttoned long-sleeved collared shirt. Signed on the lower left corner by Lagerfeld and annotated on the upper right, "Chemise, body." Double-matted and framed. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 16.3 inches by 12.75 inches. A decidedly rare fashion sketch from the influential designer, who was known to discard his sketches after the initial design phase.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147291
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The Spirit of St. Louis; Warmly Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh; In exceptional condition
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "To J. Carlton Ward, Jr. With deep appreciation Charles A. Lindbergh." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 147812
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"Markets are never wrong – opinions often are": RARE PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED BY THE GREATEST TRADER TO EVER LIVE JESSE LIVERMORE TO CLOSE FRIEND HENRY TAYLOR
LIVERMORE, Jesse.
Jesse Livermore Signed Photograph.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
Rare original photograph by De Haven of the greatest stock trader Jesse Livermore, with an inscription to close personal friend Henry Taylor. Association copy, inscribed by the author, "To my very dear Friend Harry J.L." The recipient, Henry Junior Taylor was an economist, author, radio broadcaster and former United States Ambassador to Switzerland He served as a foreign correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in the early years of World War II. After the war, Taylor hosted the General Motors-sponsored radio program Your Land and Mine, on which he was known for his conservative commentary. Taylor was a columnist for the United…
Price: $35,000.00 Item Number: 147901
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE GREAT GATSBY; INSCRIBED BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION AND IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's masterpiece, inscribed by Fitzgerald to Zelda's sister and her husband Newman Smith in the year of publication and in the exceptionally rare first issue dust jacket. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. First printing with "chatter" on p. 60, line 16; "northern" on p. 119, line 22; "it’s" on p. 165, line 16; "away" on p. 165, line 29; "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10; and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the…
Price: $975,000.00 Item Number: 147842
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First Edition of The Conquest of Everest; Signed by three expedition members Edmund Hillary, George Lane and Charles Evans
HUNT, John; With a Chapter on the Final Assault by Edmund Hillary [Tenzing Norgay].
The Conquest of Everest.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1954.
First edition of this classic account of the first ascent of Mount Everest. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 8 pages of photographs in full color, and 48 pages in black and white, maps, sketches and drawings. Foreword by Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. Boldly signed by signed by three expedition members on the front endpaper, Edmund Hillary, George Lowe and Charles Evans. Additionally inscribed by Evans above the signatures, "To all the Edwards." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by these mountaineering legends.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 147911
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Rare Typed Letter Signed by the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. R. Oppenheimer to Los Alamos Engineer George Little
OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert; [George Little].
J. Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed. [WITH] Related Manhattan Project Ephemera.
Santa Fe: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1945.
Rare typed letter signed by the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J.R. Oppenheimer. Quarto, one page on Oppenheimer's Santa Fe stationary, dated October 13, 1945, the letter reads in part, 'Dear Mr. Little This letter is to acknowledge your contribution to the development of the atomic bomb. The unequivocal success of the Los Alamos Project was made possible by the unstinting efforts and sacrifices of the members of the Special Engineering Detachment ... During the extreme production rush of the early summer you were one of a small group who did the work of a much larger group. During this…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 147275
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“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore": First Edition of Slaughterhouse-Five; Signed by Kurt Vonnegut with a Drawing of a Self-Caricature
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.
First edition of Vonnegut's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Kurt Vonnegut with a drawing of a self-caricature on the half-title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket with a unique jacket that has been mistriked bearing a duplicate look on the verso. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. A unique example, one of the nicest we have seen.
Price: $10,500.00 Item Number: 147938
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First Edition of Joe Pistone and Charles Brandt's Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business; Inscribed by Joe Pistone
PISTONE, Joe and Charles Brandt.
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.
Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007.
First edition of this account of the FBI agent's undercover operation. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco) on the title page, "Howard Best Wishes Regards Joe Pistone Donnie Brascoe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 147903
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"I build engines and attach wheels to them": Ferrari 80; Inscribed by Enzo Ferrari
FERRARI, Enzo.
Ferrari 80.
Modena: Arbe Officine Grafiche , 1981.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards. Boldly signed and dated by Enzo Ferrari on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 147921
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"It is frankly devoted to man's crazy, triumphant return to the mud from which he came": First Edition of Charles Addams' Addams and Evil
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams]; Wolcott Gibbs.
Addams and Evil.
New York: Random House, 1947.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Wolcott Gibbs.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147270
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Bentley Motors Special Series limited edition of Ian Fleming’s first book Casino Royale; Signed by Stirling Moss who contributed the foreword
FLEMING, Ian; Introduction by Stirling Moss.
Casino Royale Bentley Limited Edition.
London: Vintage Books/ Random House, 2013.
Bentley Motors Special Series limited edition of Ian Fleming's first book, which introduced the world to James Bond. Quarto, one of only 500 examples produced and bound in full beluga-colored leather sourced from the tannery in Italy which provides hides for Bentley’s interiors, all edges silver, ribbon bound in, illustrated. Using Bentley's craftsmanship, this edition features the iconic double stitching and signature winged Bentley logo, all hand stitched on the leather casing. Bentley's trademark knurling adorns the metal spine which was inspired by the Bentley steel tread plate. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page, who contributed the foreword…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 109645
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"Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch": First Edition of Absolute Friends; Signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.
First edition of this espionage novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146215
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First Edition of Simon Johnson and James Kwak's 13 Bankers; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Johnson
JOHNSON, Simon and James Kwak.
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.
First edition of this authoritative history of America's financial oligarchy by one of the most prominent and frequently cited economists in the nation. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Simon Johnson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Barth.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147163
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"MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR’S COLLECTION OF SPEECHES
REAGAN, Ronald.
Speaking My Mind.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Signed limited first edition of President Reagan’s selected speeches, number 92. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, embossed seal to the front panel, all edges gilt, raised bands, ribbon bound in, original oak box. Signed by Ronald Reagan. In fine condition.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 139197
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First Edition of Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford's Full Metal Jacket: The Screenplay; Signed by Hasford, Herr and three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd
KUBRICK, Stanley; Michael Herr; Gustav Hasford.
Full Metal Jacket: The Screenplay.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of this screenplay based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with stills from the movie. Boldly signed by Gustav Hasford and Michael Herr on the title page. Additionally signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, title page and again on the rear panel. In near fine condition. Cover design by Chip Kidd. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 147259
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"Failure is not an option": Apollo 13 Photograph; Inscribed by Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot
KRANZ, Gene and Sy Liebergot.
Apollo 13 Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot Signed Photograph.
April 13, 1970.
Signed photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft. Satin-finish photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft, boldly signed in gold felt tip by NASA’s heroic mission controllers Eugene Kranz, "Eugene F. Kranz, 'Flight,'" and Seymour Liebergot, "'We may have had an instrumentation problem, Flight.' 4/13/70, Sy Liebergot, Apollo 13 EECOM." Ironically, the station anomaly was far greater than any instrumentation malfunction Liebergot could believe. In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147225
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First Edition of Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player; signed by Yogi Berra
BERRA, Yogi and Ed Fitzgerald.
Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.
First edition of the autobiography of one of America's all-time baseball greats. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Yogi Berra on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket kodachrome by Hy Peksin. A very sharp example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 147168
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First Edition of Renewing America's Purpose; Inscribed by First Ladies Laura Bush and Barbara Bush
BUSH, George W. [Laura and Barbara Bush].
Renewing America’s Purpose: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush July 1999-July 2000.
Austin, TX: Republican National Committee / Bush for President, Inc, 2000.
First edition of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Boldly inscribed by First Ladies Laura Bush and Barbara Bush on the cover, "To Nick with best wishes: Laura Bush and Barbara Bush." In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147231
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"On your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one year or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, I think will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can! And I think Americans are willing to contribute": Official Peace Corps Act Page; Signed by President John F. Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
John F. Kennedy Signed Peace Corps Act Page.
September 22, 1961.
Seventh page of an official printing of 'An Act to provide for a Peace Corps to help the peoples of interested countries and areas in meeting their needs for skilled manpower.' One page, boldly signed in the lower margin by President John F. Kennedy. In fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 10 inches. This section of the document outlines the general powers and authorities granted to the president under the act, and it appears to be from a printer's proof of the act: an erroneous quotation mark next to part "(d)" is circled in pencil, which…
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 145801
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"Perhaps Mr. Addams is happiest in his dealing with the macabre": First Edition of Charles Addams' Drawn and Quartered
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams].
Drawn and Quartered.
New York: Random House, 1942.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Boris Karloff. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 147269
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"He has plucked the sting from our bad dreams": First Edition of Charles Addams' Black Maria
ADDAMS, Charles. [Chas Addams].
Black Maria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 147271
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"The older the violin, the sweeter the music": First Editions of each novel in the Lonesome Dove Series; Each Signed by Larry McMurtry
MCMURTRY, Larry.
Lonesome Dove; Streets of Laredo; Dead Man’s Walk; Comanche Moon.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985-1997.
First editions of each novel in the author's Pulitzer-Prize Lonesome Dove series. Octavo, four volumes, original half cloth. Each are signed or inscribed by Larry McMurtry. Each are near near fine to fine in fine dust jackets. Jacket design by George Corsillo. Jacket painting by Shannon Stirnweis. An exceptional set, rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 147371
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"From Apollo 8, good night, Merry Christmas and God bless all on Earth": Souvenir Apollo 8 Mission Report; Signed with a quote by Frank Borman
BORMAN, Frank.
Frank Borman Signed Apollo 8 Mission Report.
Houston, TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Manned Spacecraft Center, 1969.
Souvenir Apollo 8 Mission Report, describing the observations and objectives, trajectory, biomedical evaluations, and anomalies of the mission flight. Quarto, original wrappers, unbound. Signed on the front panel with a quote by Apollo astronaut Frank Borman from their famous Christmas broadcast from space, "From Apollo 8, good night, Merry Christmas and God bless all on Earth. Frank Borman Apollo 8 CDR." In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147240
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First Edition of One Giant Leap for Mankind; Signed by Walt Cunningham, Charles Conrad, and Nancy Conrad
CERNAN, Eugene A; Karl E. Kristofferson; Nancy Conrad; D.C. Agle; Bill Novarik; Hope Winsborough; Steven G. Brunner; Mitch Varnes; Holly Gordon; [Walt Cunningham]; [Charles Conrad].
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the First Lunar Walk.
Largo, FL: Rococo International, Inc, 1993.
First edition of the official book for the 25th anniversary of one of mankind's greatest triumphs. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Walt Cunningham, Charles Conrad, and Nancy Conrad on the front cover. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147257
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Commemorative WWI Photographs of future 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Lake Torpedo Boat Company; Signed by Him While He Could Still Walk
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs.
Bridgeport, CT: Lake Torpedo Boat Co, c. May 20, 1918.
Rare vintage photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, signed by him. Two gelatin silver photographs showing FDR on his May 20, 1918 visit to Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of Roosevelt seated next to various officials on the speaker's stand, and the second of Roosevelt and the same group of men walking past a building on the plant site. Signed by him on the lower right of the mat of each photograph, "Franklin D Roosevelt." Matted and framed with a manuscript caption, "Lake Torpedo Boat Co Bridgeport, Conn, May…
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 147241
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First edition of The Last Man on the Moon; inscribed by Astronaut Eugene Cernan and signed by NASA Geologist Farouk El-Baz
CERNAN, Eugene and Don Davis.
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Space Race.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
First edition, early printing of this revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American space program from one of its pioneers. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jay & Joan. Best wishes, Gene Cernan." Additionally signed by NASA Geologist Farouk El-Baz on the front free endpaper, "All good wishes Frank El-Baz." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Some bumping to the crown and foot of the spine with a publishing error that slightly extended page 181. Slight rubbing and creasing to the extremities of the…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147252
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Unused Four Cent Project Mercury Stamp Decal; Signed by Mercury Seven Astronauts Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Wally Schirra
CARPENTER, Scott; Gordon Cooper; Wally Schirra.
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Wally Schirra Signed Project Mercury Decal.
Unused decal honoring Project Mercury; signed by three of the Mercury Seven. Four-cent Project Mercury stamp decal, depicting an illustration of the Freedom 7 capsule in space, surrounded by the surnames of the Mercury Seven astronauts. Boldly signed along the outer border by Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper and by Wally Schirra. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 147226
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Return to the Moon; inscribed by Harrison Schmitt
SCHMITT, Harrison. Foreword by Neil Armstrong.
Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space.
New York: Copernicus Books in Association with Praxis Publishing, 2006.
First edition, early printing of the author's visionary plan for humankind's future in space. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Louise and the future! Harrison H. Schmitt Apollo 17." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jordan Rosenbum.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147253
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T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom; elaborately bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1949.
Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, frontispiece, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 147244
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First Edition of The Thin Red Line; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by James Jones
JONES, James.
The Thin Red Line.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.
First edition of Jones’ sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by James Jones on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 147502
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Rare Stock Certificate for the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company; Endorsed and Signed by Andrew Mellon
MELLON, Andrew.
Andrew Mellon Signed Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company Stock Certificate.
Philadelphia: American Bank Note Co, 1890.
Rare Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company stock certificate endorsed by the commanding American banker Andrew Mellon. Oblong quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certificate is dated April 10, 1890 and issues 21 shares of the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company stock to A.W. Mellon. Signed by Mellon on the verso, "A.W. Mellon." In near fine condition with a vertical crease and signature cancellation hole punches along the bottom edge. Matted and framed with a portrait of Mellon and an informational placard. The piece measures 17.5 inches by 28 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 146771
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Apollo 13 Photograph; Signed by Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
HAISE, Fred.
Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Photograph.
1970.
Rare photograph of the Apollo 13 service module. Small quarto, color satin-finish photograph of the crippled Apollo 13 service module floating in space. Boldly signed by Fred Haise, "Our view of the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module! Fred Haise, LMP, 4/17/70." In fine condition. The piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147067
