Willy Ley Autographs
Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German and American science writer and proponent of space exploration and cryptozoology. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
Willy Otto Oskar Ley was the son of Julius Otto Ley, a traveling merchant, and Frida May, the daughter of a Lutheran sexton. Ley grew up in his native Berlin during the First World War under the supervision of two aunts. When war erupted, his father was in Great Britain and consequently spent the remainder of the war at a detention camp on the Isle of Man. Meanwhile, his mother worked as a milliner in a distant city in Germany.
As Ley later recalled he "grew up, so to speak, in the shadow of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin". When his school teacher asked him to compose an essay on the subject "What Do I Want to Be When I Am Grown and Why?", Ley responded: "I want to be an explorer."
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Traded items with a signature of Willy Ley
The most expensive item with a signature of Willy Ley (Rockets: Future Travel Beyond the Stratosphere Willy Ley 1945 3rd Edition Signed) was sold in June 2025 for $3,000.00 while the cheapest item (Willy Ley Hand Signed 5 x 7 photo Historian of Science) found a new owner for $4.24 in November 2013. The month with the most items sold (4) was May 2026 with an average selling price of $201.80 for an autographed item of Willy Ley. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with $1,999.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $5.50 was January 2014. In average, an autographed item from Willy Ley is worth $168.40.
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