BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST; An American Legend - Featuring the Michael Del Castello Collection of the American West Cloth - 1998

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Pictures from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Museum. ASSOCIATION COPY from the LIBRARY of COMMANDER JAMES A. LOVELL & SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the half title plus an INSCRIPTION from Robert Shrimp, Executive Director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum; oblong quarto (8 3/4" x 8 3/4" x 1"); brown cloth with copper lettering on spine over matching brown boards; archival mylar-protected colorful photographic dust jacket with images of Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, a pistol, etc.; profusely illustrated with glossy color & B/W images associated with Bill's Wild West; pictorial colored endpapers with posters for BB's Wild West Show; Index, 316 pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 3 oz. ASSOCIATION COPY from the Author & Executive Director to James Lovell. Obtained by this dealer from the personal library of famed astronaut Captain James Lovell.<br /> <br /> Captain James Arthur Lovell Jr., USN (Ret.) (born 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. Lovell flew in space on two Gemini missions, Gemini 7 (with Borman) in 1965 and Gemini 12 in 1966. In 1968, as command module pilot of APOLLO 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the first three astronauts to fly to and ORBITTED THE MOON. He then COMMANDED THE APOLLO 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure en route, circled the Moon and returned safely to Earth.<br /> <br /> He was the first person to fly into space four times. One of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, Lovell was the first to fly to it twice. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. <br /> <br /> EXCELLENT ASSOCIATIONS and images!