Lot 132
  • 132

COLLINS, MICHAEL.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Liftoff. The Story of America's Adventure in Space. New York: Grove Press, 1988
  • cloth, board, paper, ink
10 by 7 inches. Original cloth and boards in original dust-jacket. 

Condition

Cloth backed paper boards, spine gilt, with dust jacket. Extremities of binding lightly sunned; adhesive residue on front free endpaper (possibly owing to a sticker or tag having been removed). Signed in various types of pen and marker on the title page, with some signatures bleeding through to the half-title, and copyright page.
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Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED "Best wishes to Dan Glennon, MICHAEL COLLINS", and signed "BUZZ ALDRIN APOLLO XI", "GENE CERNAN APOLLO XVII", "CHARLIE DUKE APOLLO 16", "AL WORDEN APOLLO 15" "PAUL WEITS SL-2 STS-6", "ALAN BEAN APOLLO 12", 'JERRY CARR. CRD SKYLAB III", "JAMES LOVELL", "RICK SEARFOSS. STS-58, 76, 90", "WALLY SCHIRRA", "DAVE SCOTT", "ED GIBSON SPT SKYLAB III", "BILL POGUE PLT SKYLAB III", "WALT CUNNINGHAM", "EDGAR MITCHELL APOLLO 14", "RICHARD GORDON APOLLO XII", "GUENTER F. WENDT PAD LEADER", "JACK LOUSMA SL-3, STS-3", "SCOTT CARPENTER AURORA 7", "RUSTY SCHWEICKART APOLLO 9", "TOM STAFFORD APOLLO X", "SY LIEBERGOT. APOLLO EECOM", "BRUCE MCCANDLESS II. STS 41-B, -31. CAPCOM APOLLO 10, 11, 14", "[CYRILLIC] VALERI NIKOLAYEVICH [ROMAN] KUBASOV SOYZ (SIC) -6, -36, ASTP", and "[CYRILLIC]LEONOV [ROMAN] ALEXEI LEONOV. VOSHKOD-2, SOYUZ-9".