[Rarebooks] FS: AN UNFORGETTABLE FLIGHT with SIGNATURES of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gerald Ford, and others

[Charles Agvent]

[ARMSTRONG, Neil; ALDRIN, Buzz; FORD, Gerald; et. al.] LEAR, Moya Olsen. 
BILL & MOYA LEAR. AN UNFORGETTABLE FLIGHT. Reno, NV: Jack Bacon & Co., 
1996. First Edition. Bound in half black leather and blue marbled 
boards. Illustrated with photographs. The story of the Lear Jet written 
by the widow of the founder in a personal, autobiographical manner. Of a 
total edition of 5000 copies, there were 26 lettered and signed copies 
and 20 Presentation copies given to the signers. This is a Presentation 
Copy and is marked as such on the colophon page. It is SIGNED by the 
author, Moya Lear, on a special page, and on the half-title page it is 
SIGNED by the first two men to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz 
Aldrin, President Gerald Ford, and test pilots Clay Long and Hank 
Beaird, who was the first Lear Jet pilot. In addition to creating the 
Lear Jet, William Lear also developed in 1930 the first working car 
radio, the rights which he sold to a company later called Motorola. An 
impressive collection of autographs, Armstrong is especially scarce in 
books. Fine. (#015290)        $6,500.00

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