Description
Signed first edition, first printing of 20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight In the Friendship by Amelia Earhart, with the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, 314pp, [6]. Publisher’s maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on front cover, title on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Stated “This is a copy of the first edition” on copyright page. Complete with 61 photographic plates. Solid text block, light wear to spine ends, wear from handling at the head of the spine.
Includes the publisher’s first state dust jacket, chipping along both edges, some loss along lower edge of the front panel, an exceptional example in any condition.
Includes a laid-in note from Hollywood screenwriter, Steward Stern, gifting this book to “Sybil,” who “…shares an admiration for A.E.”
Signed by the author on verso of frontispiece portrait: “For Earnestine Fishbaugh / Amelia Earhart.”
Earnestine Fishbaugh was the daughter of noted Hollywood physician, Dr. Ernest C. Fishbaugh.
This book recounts Amelia Earhart’s flight aboard the Friendship as a passenger in 1928, when she became 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 fly around the world, Earhart’s plane disappeared and was never recovered.
