Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ASTRONAUTS--APOLLO-SOYUZ.) Group of 9 items, each Signed by an Apollo-Soyuz Test Project astronaut or cosmonaut, including 5 photographs and 4 books, the Soviets signing in Russian. The photographs, signed in the image. Each 10x8 inches. The books, 4to or 8vo, wrappers. Np, nd

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The photographs: Vance D. Brand. Color 1/2-lenth portrait by NASA showing him in spacesuit with hands on globe Thomas P. Stafford. Color group portrait by NASA showing American crew during training Alexei Leonov. Color group portrait by NASA showing him in military uniform with children Alexei Leonov. Group portrait by NASA showing both crews standing before the Alamo. Additionally signed by Anatole Forostenko Valeri Kubasov. Group portrait by NASA showing both crews during a service at Arlington National Cemetery.
The books: Thomas P. Stafford (4). Russian: Glossary of the Russian Basic Course. Signed and Inscribed on the front cover: "To Anatole / Thanks for all of / your great help!" 313 pages. Defense Language Institute, 1970; inscription: Np, circa 1970 Apollo-Soyuz Astronyms. Signed on the front cover. 96 pages. Aeronutronic Ford Corporation, nd; inscription: Np, circa 1970 Newsweek magazine: "The Link Up." Signed on the front cover. Additionally signed by Alexei Leonov on page 47. 21 July 1975; inscription: Np, nd TV Guide: "This Week: Apollo/Soyuz Mission on Television." Signed on page 46. 12-18 July 1970; inscription: Np, nd.