Description
Signed first edition of The Aviator by Ernest K. Gann.
Octavo, 189pp. Blue hardcover, title in gilt on black spine. A first printing, with full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $10.95 retail price on front flap, short closed tears to rear panel, light shelf wear, near fine condition.
Signed by Ernest K. Gann on the half-title.
A late aviation novel by Gann, centered on an airmail pilot and his young passenger after a crash landing in the mountains; the novel was later adapted into the 1985 film starring Christopher Reeve and Rosanna Arquette.
