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'Up': A True Story of Aviation (Signed)
Gray, 'Jack' Stearns
Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1931.
Price: $200.00
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First edition. 8vo. 318pp. Original blue linen-grain cloth blocked in gilt. Patterned endpapers of the 'Spirit of St. Louis'. Bookplate and a small erasure on the endpaper else a beautiful copy, fine and bright. In the original dustwrapper; it is unclipped; the spine is lightly sunned; and there is old internal tape reinforcing at the head and tail of the spine and at the folds (no staining). Overall the dustwrapper is very good. In the rare publisher's printed slipcase, worn, especially at edges, and with a separation along one fold and two tape repairs. An aviation cornerstone, a beautiful copy in dustwrapper and presentable slipcase.
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Lindbergh, Charles A.
G. P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1927.
Price: $500.00
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8vo. 304pp. followed by a facsimile of the log book. Introduction by Will Rogers. Illustrated with photographs. Contemporary half crushed golden brown morocco; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt; marbled paper boards with gilt rules. Top edge gilt. Original map endpapers showing the Post-Gatty flight. This copy is signed on the title page by both Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Previous owner has written in 1936 on a preliminary blank, "My most prized possession...." A fine copy with only the barest trace of wear.
Around the World in Eight Days. (Signed): The Flight of the Winnie Mae.
Post, Wiley, and Harold Gatty
New York: Rand McNalley & Company, 1931.
Price: $600.00
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