Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
GODDARD, Robert H. Robert Hutchings Goddard, Father of the Space Age. A small commemorative edition which includes a 43 page autobiography written in 1927. The initial pages provide an overview of all of Dr. Goddard's achievements and the final pages contain the address of Postmaster General John Gronouski on the unveiling of the Goddard Air Mail stamp in 1964 at Worcester, MA. Approximately 2x3 inches and 86 pages with an actual 8 cent stamp insert. Amsterdam, 1966
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This is number 1637 of a limited edition of 1926 released during the 40th anniversary of the first launch of a liquid fuel rocket in March 1926 by Robert Goddard. The half title page has been inscribed and signed by Mrs. Goddard: "For Dr. Harold B. Eiber, with all good wishes - Esther C. Goddard, December 1972."