NEIL ARMSTRONG’S SIGNATURE - THE ULTIMATE ASSOCIATION COPY de WELLS, H.G - 1901: The first men in the moon.

First English edition printed a month following the first printing in Indianapolis, with minor differences in the text. Certainly one of Wells' best-known and beloved science fiction-romances. The story surrounds the journey to the moon by two men, a scientist and businessman, who discover the Selenites, a sophisticated civilization of insect-like creatures. This, as well as many of Wells' books, inspired generations of science fiction writers such as C.S Lewis. This was not only Wells' first novel to be made into a film, released in 1919, but the first science fiction novel ever adapted as a motion picture.

Of course the amazing aspect of this copy is the signature of Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), the first human to ever walk on the moon. Armstrong, who along with Buzz Aldrin and their pilot Michael Collins, traveled to the moon on Apollo 11. Upon stepping on the surface, Armstrong uttered one of the most famous set of words of all time: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong was notorious for not signing anything.

Bleiler, Science Fiction Writers, p. 28; Currey, p. 518; Locke, Voyages in Space, 208; Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography, 1177; Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 123-124; Wells, 18.