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Lunar Surveyor Photo Archive by NASA

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Lunar Surveyor Photo Archive
Author: NASA
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1965. [NASA]. [Archive of vintage black-and-white photographs documenting Surveyors 2 and 3]. [Los Angeles: Hughes Aircraft, 1965]. Sixty-nine black-and-white photographs, most measuring 4 by 5 inches or 8 by 10 inches, in protective sleeves with card backings. $2500.Sixty-nine vintage black-and-white photographs documenting the assembly and transport of Surveyors 2 and 3, two of the spacecraft NASA used to scout lunar landing sites for the Apollo program.""Following the Ranger missions, NASA's Surveyor program was designed to find a way to safely land on the Moon. After three practice missions, five of the seven Surveyor spacecraft made it to the Moon"" (NASA). This intriguing archive of 69 black-and-white photographs documents the assembly and transportation of Surveyors 2 and 3. Taken in June and July of 1965, images include the encapsulation of Surveyor 2; Surveyor 2 after separation spring installation; Surveyor 3 placed in an airlock for post-assembly transport; testing Surveyor 3's transport equipment on the way to the launch complex; loading the craft aboard an Air Force transport plane, its clamshell doors open; the craft wrapped in plastic; the transport vehicle's chain assembly; numerous views of the Surveyor Oxidizer purge cart; a Polaroid photo of the Surveyor Oxizider tank; and more. The Surveyor 2 mission was unsuccessful. When one of the craft's three thrusters failed to ignite, it spun out of control and crashed southeast of Copernicus crater on September 23, 1966. Surveyor 3, however, landed on April 20, 1967 and ""made further inroads into preparations for human missions Using a surface sampler to study the lunar soil, [it] conducted experiments to see how the lunar surface would fare against the weight of an Apollo lunar module [The lander] also gathered information on the lunar soil's radar reflectivity and thermal properties"" (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). The Apollo 12 crew retrieved pieces of Surveyor 3 so that scientists could study how the lander's exposure to the lunar environment affected it. Of the 69 photographs, 53 measure 4 by 5 inches, 16 measure 8 by 10 inches and one, the Polaroid, measures 4-1/4 by 7 inches. Verso of each photograph stamped with date and explanatory text. Some photographs with marginal punch holes, indicating they were, or were meant to be, grouped in a catalogue. A fascinating collection of photographs in excellent condition.

Early Los Angeles Real Estate Developer Discusses Stocks And Housing Boom In Letter by HANCOCK McCLUNG JOHNSTON

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Title: Early Los Angeles Real Estate Developer Discusses Stocks And Housing Boom In Letter
Author: HANCOCK McCLUNG JOHNSTON
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: HANCOCK MCCLUNG JOHNSTON (1847-1904). Hancock McClung Johnston was a real estate developer in early Los Angelese, California. He was the son of Albert Sidney Johnston, a famed confederate officer in the Civil War. Because of his developments on the East Side of Los Angeles, he had Hancock and Johnston street named after him.ALS. 3pg. Los Angeles, California. February 7, 1881. An autograph letter signed H. M. J. to his mother, Eliza Griffin Johnston, discussing stocks and real estate. Dear Mother: I have a chance to sell all or part of your Water Stock for $ of 5.00 per share. I have sold for you anyhow 16 2/3 shares for the reason that the Company will have to stop paying dividends for 3 or 4 months in order to renew some old pipes + I thought it best to sell some so you would have money on hand to live on. The stock if managed fairly is a good investment but as we dont control it any more it may be risky. If you want to hold on to 50 shares it may be as well to do so, provided you know of no better investment paying an income every month- I could invest the money for you so that it would double itself in two or three years on a safe investment but meantime you would have no in-come- Send me your Certificates of Stock together with your Power of Attorney to sell it and then tell me how much to sell. The stock will net you $5000.00 which is $600.00 short of the money you loaned me, but I will pay you the $600.00 so you wont be out much on the investment. I think that you had better sell it all, after thinking the matter over, and chance it on finding some secure investment. Send the papers as soon as you have thought the matter over, but dont take longer than a day over it as by delay, I might lose the chance to sell. The Salmon arrived yesterday am much obliged, but wont send for any more things unless you let me pay for them- I am not so badly off- as I was! I feel sure of selling Mags place this spring. A great boom is commencing here again in real estate and I have strong hopes of unloading every-thing and am offering property for about half the prices that others offer it at. I tell you I have gone through this for purely on nerve and have no more sympathy or good will than a mad dog. I have been treated in the most brutal manner by those that owed me the most kindness of feeling, from this on, I owe the world just one pound of flesh, for one pound of flesh, and I want full measure every time, and if I ever make another raise I will never be poor again! And I am one of the kind that knows how to make money as well as spend it. Jacks head is all well again and he has not left a very bad scar, it did not even give him a bad headache. I have not sold any number of horses yet, but I have a fair prospect of selling out before long. Griff is fatter than I ever saw him and if he would not smoke I think he would stay so at least all the Doctors say so. If I had discharged Eason a year ago I would have been $5000 better off- My love to all Your affectionate son H. M. J.. Hancock was also involved in Los Angeles' real estate. In the 1870s, Los Angeles had a population of a little more than 5,000, but by 1900, there were over 100,000 people. This is the boom in real estate that he refers to, as many people began moving into Los Angeles, and provided good conditions for selling his sister, Mags, house. He goes on to allude to how he has been taken advantage of and will not any more. This letter is in very good condition.

Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories; two volumes complete by Andersen, Hans Christian

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Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)

Title: Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories; two volumes complete
Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: fine
Description: Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. Hardcover. fine. Translated by Jean Hersholt with illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Bound in the publisher's original blue genuine leather with the title and author stamped in gilt on the spine. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers.

The Haunting Hand by Roberts. W. Adolphe

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Seller: ReadInk

Title: The Haunting Hand
Author: Roberts. W. Adolphe
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [Good only, a worn but intact book; spine turned, moderate wear with slight fraying to cloth at a few corners, top right-hand edge of front cover bumped, one-time owner's name on ffep, light staining to rear cover, spine lettering partially rubbed off]. New York-set mystery novel about a movie actress who sees a creepy disembodied arm and hand reaching out from under her bed one night, and spends the rest of the novel (with the help of many other characters) trying to figure out what the heck it was -- spook, burglar, figment of her imagination? By some definitions this could be considered a "Hollywood novel," insofar as it takes place partially against a film studio background -- the studio in question, the "Superfilm Company," being located in Astoria, N.Y. -- and is peopled with standard-issue stock characters of the genre: the egotistical and sexually aggressive director, the jealous star actress, the young love-struck cameraman, etc., all involved in making a film called "A Toreador's Love." It's also been claimed as the first mystery novel written by an African-American author, although the problem there seems to be that Mr. Roberts was neither African-American (he was born in Jamaica, of substantially-creole parentage) nor even especially dark-skinned, let alone "black" (as he's also been called). Oddly, too, it's not usually mentioned as being his first novel, although all evidence indicates that it was. (He had, however, already been professionally active as a poet and journalist for several decades prior to its publication, and had also written quite a bit of magazine fiction.) .

WALLPAPER CATALOG by Montgomery Ward

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Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books

Title: WALLPAPER CATALOG
Author: Montgomery Ward
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1949. Paperback. Very Good. ca 100+ samples of original wallpapers with illus., descriptions & prices. Color illus. on cover. 82pp. Tools & supples for hanging shown. 7 1/2" x 9".

Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man

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Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Title: Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG, edges and lower corner show light wear
Description: London: Christie's, 2009. Softbound. VG, edges and lower corner show light wear. Color pictorial wraps, 23pp, numerous color and BW illustrations. Auction catalog from the December 8, 2009 evening auction. This catalog is limited solely to the Rembrandt for sale, "Portrait of a man with arms akimbo." Catalog includes the estimated price range, the testing done to prove authenticity, and a history of the owners of the painting. Painting was sold at auction for $33,210,855.

The Art of Bible Translation by Alter, Robert

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Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA

Title: The Art of Bible Translation
Author: Alter, Robert
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780691181493
Condition: Very good
Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 127pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA, VISIONS AND REVISIONS by WILSON, Richard Guy, and Sidney K. Robinson (edito

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Title: MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA, VISIONS AND REVISIONS
Author: WILSON, Richard Guy, and Sidney K. Robinson (edito
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: (FESTSCHRIFT) WILSON, Richard Guy, and Sidney K. Robinson (editors). MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA, VISIONS AND REVISIONS. Ames: Iowa State University Press, (1991). Square 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. x 217 pages. First edition. This is a festschrift in honor of Leonard K. Eaton by his former students. Contributors include Mark Mumford, Walter C. Leedy, Jr., Richard Guy Wilson, Robert Benson among others. With illustrations. Fine.

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