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A Fragment of Apollo 11; Flown Hatch Plug by [NASA]

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Title: A Fragment of Apollo 11; Flown Hatch Plug
Author: [NASA]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Kennedy Space Center: NASA, 1969. First Edition. Composition hatch plug, flown to the Moon and back on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. 23mm long x 12.5mm diameter. An actual piece of the Columbia command module, removed after the spacecraft was recovered aboard USS Hornet in the South Pacific on July 24, 1969. As Dick Williamson writes, "This plug is one of several that are removed from certain areas of the spacecraft in order to gain access to deactivate systems/functions." Ex Dick Williamson, NASA motion picture photographer from 1964 to 1986, present for recovery operations on Gemini and Apollos 10, 11, 12, 13, and 15, and the man entrusted with escorting the first Moon rocks from Apollo 11 back to NASA. With Williamson's signed note of provenance. Apollo 11's Columbia is now in the Smithsonian, intact as a `national relic. The hatch plugs and some screws were among the only components of the ship itself that had to be removed, and they are the pieces that could be expected to remain in the hands of collectors today. If you wait a few years, regardless of price, you are going to need the Dark Side of the Force to acquire an authentic piece of the spacecraft from this specific mission. Setting Armstrong (a civilian) and Aldrin (a Colonel) on the Moon and bringing them back alive while Collins orbited above was the most ambitious and complex of all human achievements so far. In 1,000 years, it may be the only event anyone remembers to associate with the 20th century. This was the United States at its most sensational, and America is still the best promise. For the record: Apollo 1 caught fire. Apollos 2 through 6 were unmanned tests and Apollo 7 flew in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 orbited the Moon and was the first manned ride on the Saturn V rocket. Apollos 9 and 10 also orbited and tested the landing craft, but it was Apollo 11, launched July 16, 1969, that fulfilled the pledge, landed Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface, and brought all three men safely home. A mythic remnant with a failsafe future.

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (Signed limited edition) by King, Stephen

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Title: The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (Signed limited edition)
Author: King, Stephen
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Doubleday, 1990. Signed limited edition. Fine/Fine. One of 1,250 copies signed by Stephen King and artist Berni Wrightson. A Fine copy in like publisher's glassine dust jacket. Publisher's full black leather. Housed in the publisher's black wooden "coffin" case. When Stephen King brought his manuscript for The Stand to Doubleday in 1978, the story was over 450,000 words long (about 1,200 pages). The publisher warned that the production cost of such a long book would push the retail price too high for consumers, so King made major edits, cutting the manuscript down by a third. For the "complete and uncut edition" of The Stand, published in 1990, King restored most of the removed material - 323 pages - and made a few additional edits, like revising the order of the chapters and moving the date of the pandemic forward ten years, from 1980 to 1990, to match the new publication date. The Stand is a classic of apocalyptic horror. When a strain of influenza modified for biological warfare is accidentally released, an apocalyptic global pandemic ensues. With 99.4% of the human population killed, the world's few survivors face confusion, grief, and widespread violence. In a 2008 interview, King explained that he was inspired to write the novel by a news story on biological warfare: "I saw a 60 Minutes segment on CBW [chemical-biological warfare]. I never forgot the gruesome footage of the test mice shuddering, convulsing, and dying..." The novel also marks the first appearance of King's recurring character, Randall Flagg, who would later reappear as an antagonist in The Eyes of the Dragon (1984) and the Dark Tower series (1982 - 2012). Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Three Pieces of Illustrated Sheet Music Showing Josephine Baker in Paris: J’ai deux Amours; Sur Deux Notes; Revoir Paris by [African-Americana – Dance / Music] Baker, Josephine; Lara, Agustín; Misraki, Paul; Scotto, Vincent, et al.

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Title: Three Pieces of Illustrated Sheet Music Showing Josephine Baker in Paris: J’ai deux Amours; Sur Deux Notes; Revoir Paris
Author: [African-Americana – Dance / Music] Baker, Josephine; Lara, Agustín; Misraki, Paul; Scotto, Vincent, et al.
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine condition.
Description: Various publishers, 1949. Three titles as follows: J’ai deux Amours. Fox-trot chanté par Josephine Baker. Paris: Éditions Salabert, 1930. 4 pp. Fine condition;. Near fine condition.. A tight, visually appealing trio of illustrated Parisian sheet music issues tracing Josephine Baker’s arc from Jazz Age sensation to postwar cultural legend. J’ai deux Amours—arguably her defining anthem—captures the carefully crafted dual identity that propelled Baker’s rise: African American expatriate turned Parisian icon, marketed simultaneously as modernist spectacle and cosmopolitan muse. As scholars have noted, Baker’s image circulated widely through commercial ephemera such as sheet music covers, where graphic design, celebrity branding, and racialized fantasy converged in the interwar marketplace.[1] Sur Deux Notes reflects Baker’s assimilation into mainstream chanson culture and her ongoing collaborations within Paris’s cabaret milieu, while Revoir Paris, issued after World War II, resonates with her decorated service in the French Resistance and her celebrated return to the Folies Bergère stage. Together, these pieces offer a compact visual and musical snapshot of Baker’s evolving persona across two decades—part performance artifact, part cultural document, and wholly emblematic of Paris as a crossroads of Black modernism and popular entertainment. [1] Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image (University of Illinois Press, 2007).

1927 Photograph of the Waseda University Basketball Team, the First Japanese Basketball Team to Play in the US by [Japan – Basketball – California] Unknown Photographer

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Title: 1927 Photograph of the Waseda University Basketball Team, the First Japanese Basketball Team to Play in the US
Author: [Japan – Basketball – California] Unknown Photographer
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very good to excellent.
Description: California, 1927. Photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Unevenly trimmed top edge; some folding at lower corners; excellent contrast with extensive pencil caption verso. Very good to excellent.. A portrait of the Waseda University basketball team from 1927; according to its manuscript caption the photo was taken following their defeat by the University of California team at the Oakland Auditorium, on a tour of the Pacific coast. The sport, invented in Massachusetts in 1891 (with a Japanese student partaking in the first game), was brought to Japan as early as 1902 by American missionaries.[1] A New York Times article from the time reports that Waseda University was the first Japanese basketball team to come to the US, following the success of its baseball team’s tour; and that there was “much interest” in the Japanese players’ strategy of “cat-like swiftness”.[2] [1] Tetsuji Kakiyama, “Challenging established theory: History of Japanese Basketball,” Research Outreach, April 10, 2023. [2] “JAPANESE FIVE PLANS TRIP; Waseda University Seeks Games With California and Others”, The New York Times, October 7, 1927, 33.

Castles in Europe. The Innovation Trot by [African-Americana – Music – Dance – Ragtime / Tango Craze] Europe, James Reese

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Title: Castles in Europe. The Innovation Trot
Author: [African-Americana – Music – Dance – Ragtime / Tango Craze] Europe, James Reese
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Light edge wear and minor surface creasing; very good overall with strong color to the cover.
Description: New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co, 1914. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Light edge wear and minor surface creasing; very good overall with strong color to the cover.. A dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) and introduced by the celebrated ballroom team Vernon and Irene Castle during the height of the early twentieth-century social dance craze. The cover features a photographic image of the Castles in mid-step against a vivid purple field. Europe was already emerging as one of the most important African American bandleaders of the period through his work directing the Castle House Orchestra, which accompanied the Castles’ dance demonstrations and performances in New York. As noted in Library of Congress program materials on the Castles: “In 1914, the most famous exponents of modern social dance were Vernon and Irene Castle. Their revolutionary style did away with bulky moves associated with dances of the late nineteenth century and replaced them with elegant and streamlined athleticism. The Castles brought a new wave of popularity to dancing and much of their popularity was due to their daringness; the white Castles had hired an African-American orchestra to accompany them in a time when such public integration was nearly unknown. James Reese Europe (1881–1919) served as the Castle’s musical director.” Publications such as Castles in Europe represent Europe’s commercial dance music output during the years immediately preceding his later national prominence as leader of the 369th Infantry “Hellfighters” Band during the First World War. One of several Castle-associated dance compositions issued under Europe’s name during the peak of the ragtime and tango dance craze.

Graphic Pictures, More Graphic Pictures, Gleanings From The Graphic & Last Graphic Pictures by Caldecott, Randolph

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Title: Graphic Pictures, More Graphic Pictures, Gleanings From The Graphic & Last Graphic Pictures
Author: Caldecott, Randolph
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. boards in a multitude of colors, both front and back. Spines lettered in gilt. Very good. 4 Vols
Description: London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Orig. boards in a multitude of colors, both front and back. Spines lettered in gilt. Very good. 4 Vols. Caldecott, Randolph. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 37 cm. The complete set of four volumes. Voluminously illustrated with colored lithographs and black and white illustrations by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. All spines lettered in gilt -- three in brown cloth and one in navy. All pictorial front covers with interior contents fresh and clean, very slight rubbing to backstrips head and foot.

The Laurel Leaf: Volume 1, Number 2. July 1949 by Appelman, Evan H.

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Title: The Laurel Leaf: Volume 1, Number 2. July 1949
Author: Appelman, Evan H.
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Description: Highland Park, IL: Published by the Editor, 1949. Volume 1, Number 2. July 1949. Original side-stapled sheets, folded in half vertically with back cover used for mailing. Very Good with toning and wear. A scarce early sci-fi fanzine.

The Essential Ellison; A 35-Year Retrospective by Ellison, Harlan

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Title: The Essential Ellison; A 35-Year Retrospective
Author: Ellison, Harlan
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ISBN: 9780914261018
Condition: Fine
Description: Omaha: Nemo Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited and Introduced by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont. Signed by Ellison on the limitation page. Complete in the issued slipcase. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($60.00). Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A massive collection of Ellison's writing, including "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

Jean Prouvé by PROUVÉ, Jean (artist)

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Title: Jean Prouvé
Author: PROUVÉ, Jean (artist)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9782909187204
Condition: Near fine
Description: Paris: Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2017. Near fine. Two volumes. 11.5 x 10 inches. 428 and 336 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; pictorial slipcase. "This exquisitely produced and comprehensive slipcased publication, edited by Paris' Galerie Patrick Seguin, is a new and enlarged edition of the original two-volume Jean Prouvé monograph that was published in 2007 to fill a hole in the previously existing scholarship, most of which had focused on Prouvé's architecture. Featuring a redesigned cover and graphics, it adds presentations of each house exhibited by Galerie Patrick Seguin (with archival images, plans and contemporary photos); an expanded selection of private international collections with photography of Prouvé furniture; and a catalog of Prouvé exhibitions organized by Galerie Patrick Seguin from 1990 to 2016" (the publisher).

Peter Beard by Beard, Peter

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Title: Peter Beard
Author: Beard, Peter
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Description: Köln: Taschen, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (12-1/2" x 9"). 2 volumes. Unpaginated. Text in English, French and German. Red cloth, gilt. Both volumes housed in publisher's black cloth, gilt, slipcase with photo mounted on front cover. Illustrated throughout, mostly in color, some plates folding. Slipcase with minor spotting and rubbing. Photographer, collector, diarist, & writer of books, Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist. This two-volume set contains Beard's most important collages, along with hundreds of smaller-scale works & diaries. (OCLC).

Granitovo. Poema (Granitovo. A Poem)[Original illustrations by Olga Paskaleva] by Elenkov, Luchezar

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Title: Granitovo. Poema (Granitovo. A Poem)[Original illustrations by Olga Paskaleva]
Author: Elenkov, Luchezar
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Sofiia: Narodna Mladezh, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Second edition; 7" x 9"; pp. [9], 10-54, [2]; original brown boards with gilt title; pictorial DJ; illustrated; fine. Jacket with a few small nicks to head and tail of spine and corners, very good. What first grabs the attention in this book are the striking full-page sepia tone illustrations by Olga Paskaleva - an award winning Bulgarian artist. In a typical Communist propaganda way, the poem commemorates the heroism of 7 members of 'Georgi Benkovski' Partisan Squad during WWII. Surrounded and far outnumbered by the Germans In the winter of 1944, they run out of ammunition and instead of falling into the enemy's hands they save the last bomb for themselves.

Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a Branch of Commercial.. by Story, Joseph; William Fisher Wharton

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Title: Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a Branch of Commercial..
Author: Story, Joseph; William Fisher Wharton
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
ISBN: 9781584777663
Description: 2007. ISBN-13: 9781584777663; ISBN-10: 1584777664. "A Truly Luminous Exposition of a Subject Noted for its Intricacy" Story, Joseph. Wharton, William Fisher, Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1881. Seventh edition by William Fisher Wharton. li, 730 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777663; ISBN-10: 1584777664. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * Reprint of the seventh and final edition. First published in 1841, this was the last of Story's great treatises. Like the others, it was a standard work in the United States and, to some extent, Great Britain. In his Law Studies Samuel Warren said the Commentaries on the Law of Partnership is "a truly luminous exposition of a subject noted for its intricacy, and the subtlety of the rules upon which the system depends" (451). It was a deeply influential work as well. Indeed, Pound mentions it his list of texts that were "a significant force in our legal development.": The Formative Era of American Law 140.

Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang [and] The Little Rascals [SIGNED] by Bond, Tommy "Butch," with Ron Genini

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Title: Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang [and] The Little Rascals [*SIGNED*]
Author: Bond, Tommy "Butch," with Ron Genini
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj
Description: Wayne PA: Morgin Press Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1994. First Edition Third Printing. Hardcover. [the teeniest bit of wear to book at the spine ends; the jacket is flawless]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Bill -- What memories / what a pal! What a / Director! / Tommy 'Butch' Bond / 8/28/99." Autobiography of "one of the original Our Gang-Little Rascals" (which of course depends on how you define "original"; he didn't make his first film with the kids until 1931, when the series was already almost ten years old). (I don't know the identity of "Bill," the director to whom the book in inscribed, but it seems at least possible Signed by Author .

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Basbanes, Nicholas A.

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Title: Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture
Author: Basbanes, Nicholas A.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780060196950
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY: Harper Collins, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. xviii, 602pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed by Basbanes on the half title page.

The National Geographic Magazine, February 1938, Volume LXXIII, Number Two

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Title: The National Geographic Magazine, February 1938, Volume LXXIII, Number Two
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Nationa, 1938. Good. The National Geographic Magazine, February 1938, Volume LXXIII, Number Two. Washington D. C.: Nationa, 1938. 264pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with small abrasions in spine ends. Slightly disjointed front cover. Slightly warped rear cover with last few pages stuck together..

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