Description
Signed first edition of Amelia Earhart’s 20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight In the Friendship.
Octavo, 314pp. Publisher’s maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on front cover, title on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Rubbing to boards, wear along bottom edge, toning to spine. Top edge yellow. Occasional foxing and toning to leaves. In a later state dust jacket from Grosset & Dunlap, chipping to edges, bright illustrations, a very good example. Signed by the author on verso of frontispiece. Includes Letter of Authenticity from JSA. A nice signed example of this work.
This book recounts Amelia Earhart’s flight aboard the Friendship as a passenger in 1928, becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. A few years later in 1932, Ms. Earhart would become the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic. In 1937, in an attempt to make a flight around the world, Earhart’s plane disappeared, and she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were never found.
