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The first "selfie" in space--the last to survive. Four As New SIGNED First Edition titles by Buzz Aldrin, the last surviving crew member of Apollo 11. "I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans," Aldrin told the New York Times in 2009, amply demonstrated within all four Signed First Edition copies in fine condition with fine dust jackets. Unread; opened only by Buzz for his signatures, no personalizations. Signed directly to books, no "tipped in" signatures. Collection includes Reaching for the Moon (Harper Collins, 2005, also signed by artist Wendell Minor); Mission to Mars (National Geographic, 2013, also signed by co-author Leonard David); Magnificent Desolation (Harmony, 2009,) and Welcome to Mars (Nat Geo, 2015). All four signed titles in very fine, highly collectible condition. In 1966 on the Gemini 12 orbital mission, Buzz performed the world's first successful spacewalk – extra-vehicular activity (EVA), and set a new EVA record of 5 1⁄2 hours. During that mission he also took the… Read More

SIGNED by Muhammed Ali, Joe Frasier, and Don King, the highly collectible Sports Illustrated issue, Sept. 15, 1975, promoting the upcoming Ali-Frasier match in Manila. Directly below King's signature, he writes "Only In America" in quotation marks. SI dubs King, "Boxing's new Barnum," who essentially worked for Ali, "the hottest property in the world." A Fine copy, no writing or markings inside or on covers. Front cover evidences a torn-off mailing label. Very Rare. Book #P3112. $2500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by both authors -- Muhammad ALI and Thomas Hauser -- in perfect, UNread condition. 1st Edition. First Edition, fourth printing. Ali signs and dates "97"; Hauser inscribes to former Atlanta Braves announcer, Pete Van Wieren, making this copy a remarkable Association Copy. An original photo of Pete and Ali is included. Ali's signature and photographs have appreciated rapidly, particularly in Library-Quality condition like this. You'll never locate a better copy. Book #Pv5b101. $268. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Complete with foldout! "RESTRICTED NOT TO BE PUBLISHED" US military instructions manual for the eradication of Nazism in Germany distributed only to high ranking military officers just prior to Germany's surrender. Octavo. Hole-punched and cord tied in the original pale grey cloth-backed printed boards. A bit of wear to extremities, covers lightly stained; still a surprisingly well preserved copy of this most uncommon classified military document. Book #Pv2226. $898. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, erotica, history, and science.

SIGNED by author Martin Anderson to Ray Watt, a prolific builder who did much to define the look of modern Los Angeles, on front flyleaf. The policies of the current administration -- with its ever-widening "infrastructure" proposals, its handouts, its frantic searches for new recipients who demand still more handouts -- speak to the timelessness and timeliness of Anderson's Welfare. Mr. Anderson, later an economic advisor to President Reagan, earned the first PhD in industrial management ever granted by a college or university from the MIT Sloan School of Management. His first book, The Federal Bulldozer, critiqued Johnson's "urban renewal" policies; upon publication MIT Press sent copies to urban renewal agencies and developers across the nation, creating nationwide interest in Anderson's tome. Very likely, young real estate developer Ray watt was among them. Ray Watt, a pioneer and innovator in California real estate, was widely credited as the first in the West to popularize condominiums, strip… Read More

SIGNED, Inscribed, and dated by Maya Angelou on the half-title. Released in December 1999, Courtney-Clarke's beloved tribute to her collaborator and friend, Maya Angelou: The Poetry of Living, offers a laudation through revealing portraits and interviews of the Poet Laureate and intimate who has influenced her life as well as the lives of millions around the world. Two small tickets attached to the mylar protection, not affecting dust jacket or book at all. Book is in glorious condition, opened only by Maya for her signature. Book #v5b168. $569. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED and Boldly Inscribed by Maya Angelou, "Without a doubt, America's most visible black woman autobiographer," a magnificent First Edition/First Printing copy of her second book of essays, Even the Stars Look Lonesome. Octavo; original deep purple boards backed with black cloth, spine and front board lettered in bronze, gentle deckled edge. Dazzling dust jacket protected in mylar with small adhesives First Edition Signed attached to mylar, not jacket. "What it is like to be human, and American, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on?" (Angelou 130). You'll not locate a more desirable As New copy in like, mylar-wrapped dust jacket. Book #v5B169. $195. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Maya Angelou, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson! As New. Opened only for all three artists' signatures!. "When I'm on stage with Dr. Angelou, I become one of those people who came to see her as opposed to one of the people performing with her" (Nick Ashford). 1st Edition. UNIQUE Signed Maya Angelou. In 1996, legendary songwriters Ashford and Simpson ("Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Solid as a Rock," "Solid as Barack" for President Barack Obama's 2009 Presidential Inauguration) teamed with Angelou to write/produce/record the album "Been Found." Presented is a never-played CD of "Been Found," the first recording of Ashford and Simpson's new label, Hopsack & Silk, signed by Maya Anglou, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. This is the only such copy we've ever seen, acquired on the occasion of the wedding of Jimmy Simpson, Valerie's brother. Angelou's musical history, with a legendary association! A Unique item for a most discerning collector of Maya Angelou and/or contemporary music. Book… Read More

The Works of Aristotle "per Des. Eras Roterordamvm" 1550. 2 volumes in one, folio (323 x 192mm). Third Edition of The Works of Aristotle of the original text in 1831 prepared by Simon Grynaeus. This edition retains the original letter from Erasmus to Thomas More's son John. Woodcut initials, a few woodcut illustrations, old calf, a few early annotations, numerous notes in Latin, Greek and English on front and rear flyleaves (probably nineteenth-century) and in text in ink, pencil and red crayon, neat annotations in Greek in second volume, Greek quotation from Aristotle written on first title-page, occasional light staining, T5 torn in margin, binding rubbed, rebacked. Two of history's greatest minds converge. Book #P8126. $6500. We specialize in Rare Ayn rand, erotica, history, and science.

SIGNED by Arnold on the title page, the Twentieth printing of the paperback edition of his The Folklore of Capitalism. A square, tight copy, at least partially unread, with no writings or markings of any kind save author's writing. Accompanying it is a reading copy of the hardcover. Book #C2122. $225. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.