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Topic: [PBA] Space Flight History Books (Sept 2020)
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inter-planetary
Member Posts: 11
From: Merced, California, USA
Registered: Aug 2020
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posted 08-12-2020 10:31 AM
   
Beginning on Labor Day, September 7, and continuing until Sept. 17, PBA Galleries in Berkeley, California, will be holding its first online auction of Space Flight rare books and ephemera. The illustrated catalogue can be found here. The sale will focus on rare printed material, including writings by Jules Verne, Robert Goddard, Percival Lowell, Konstantin Tsiolkovski, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Herman Oberth, Hermann Noordung, Edwin Hubble, Olaf Stapledon, Auguste Piccard, David Lasser, Hsu-Shen Tsien, Wehrner Von Braun, Robert Truax, James Van Allen, Dandridge Cole, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan and Ari Sternfeld. There are also autographed, signed and inscribed items of Mrs. Robert Goddard, Willy Ley, Arthur Clarke, Chuck Yeager, George Sutton, Milton Rosen, William Pickering, John Pierce, Generals Gavin and Medaris, Bernard Lovell, Presidential Science advisors James Killian and Jerome Wiesner, NASA Administrators James E. Webb and Thomas Paine, John Glenn and other Astronauts, Russian General General Nikolai Kamanin and Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin, German Titov and Alexei Leonov - and a large archive of original NASA documents about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I'm an historian and rare book dealer — not on the staff of the auction house — but many of the items offered are from my own collection. If you're interested in uncommon books on space history, you may find some bargains! |
inter-planetary
Member Posts: 11
From: Merced, California, USA
Registered: Aug 2020
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posted 09-07-2020 01:16 PM
The auction is now open for bidding. |
inter-planetary
Member Posts: 11
From: Merced, California, USA
Registered: Aug 2020
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posted 09-15-2020 10:21 AM
Auction bidding will close on Thursday at 11AM Pacific time.Only a handful of the 120+ lots now have bids. The most active include books signed by Astronauts, books inscribed by Arthur Clarke (of 2001 Space Odyssey fame) and a letter by Mrs. Robert Goddard. Other active items include a congressional report on the first plan for an Army rocket corps in the 1840s and a German pamphlet on rocketry during World War II. The link to the online catalog can be found in the first message of this thread.
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inter-planetary
Member Posts: 11
From: Merced, California, USA
Registered: Aug 2020
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posted 09-18-2020 01:04 PM
Highest prices from yesterday's auction: - Four books inscribed by women astronauts, $400
- Lasser, Conquest of Space, 1931, $400
- Clarke, Exploration of Space, signed $300
- H.S. Tsien, Jet Propulsion, 1946, $300
- Von Braun, Mars Project, $275
- Von Braun, Space Journal magazines, $250
- Philp, Astronautics, 1935, $250
- Astronautics magazines, 1954, $225
- Hale, Brick Moon, 1869, $200
- Clarke, Promise of Space, signed, $200
- Clarke, Coming of Space Age, signed, $200
- Sutton, Rocket Propulsion, 1st ed., $200
- Esnault-Pelterie, Exploration by Rocket, 1928, $200
- Lowell, Mars Abode of Life, 1908 $200
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