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Topic: Value of Neil Armstrong's 'Wingless on Luna'?
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davidcwagner Member Posts: 1080 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 12-20-2024 03:31 PM
"Wingless on Luna" is a book by Neil Armstrong, similar to his lecture at the 25th Wings Club in 1988. Value in very good condition? Will send to RR auction for Spring 2025 space sale. No Reserve!!Rob nailed it. Thanks. The best,if Sieger real, eBay UK together with an Armstrong-signed Sieger stamp block for $1,899. |
davidcwagner Member Posts: 1080 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 12-21-2024 11:48 AM
How many copies were printed? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 53659 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-21-2024 12:33 PM
Unless I am missing it, ABE Books does not have a feature to search past sales, but it does list one copy currently available from a book store in Atlanta, Georgia for $3,850.Lunar Legacies sold a copy for $850 in 2018. There is a presently a copy being offered on eBay UK together with an Armstrong-signed Sieger stamp block for $1,899. A quick search of Heritage's past sales does not show a copy being sold, so it seems Armstrong's own copy went to his archives at Purdue University, as listed here. (Purdue also has his correspondence with the Wings Club leading up to the speech and the speech papers as delivered.) There are listings online for other copies held in museum archives and libraries, but I do not see any info as to a total population. |
Blackarrow Member Posts: 3783 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-21-2024 12:53 PM
Amazon UK have a copy on offer for £25.78 (just over $32) plus P&P. It's a "used, very good" paperback with 25 pages and was published on 1/1/1988 by Twenty-Fifth Wings Club. I'm not sure of the significance of a note in small print stating that the illustration accompanying the offer is "not the actual book cover." |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 53659 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-21-2024 01:30 PM
I saw that listing too, but chalked it up to being a fraudulent/unauthorized copy. I can find no record of a paperback, unbound or even PDF copy being available. |
Blackarrow Member Posts: 3783 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-21-2024 03:13 PM
I thought the picture accompanying the listing looked like one of those "print to order" books Amazon does. That's one of several questions a would-be buyer might want to put to the seller. |