Description
The first edition, third printing of The Fun Of It, signed by Amelia Earhart.
Octavo, [8], 218pp, [1]. Brown cloth, title stamped in white on spine and cover. Stated “third printing” on copyright page. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 31 illustrated plates. Includes the publisher’s phonographic record featuring Earhart’s voice, as recorded by RCA Victor, affixed to rear endpaper. Internally clean, solid text block. Touch of wear to spine from handling, minimal toning. Lacking the scarce dust jacket.
Signed on the front free endpaper by Amelia Earhart.
The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation was released on September 20, 1932, following Earhart’s historic solo transatlantic flight earlier that year in May. It was her second book, following 20 Hrs., 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship, which was published in 1928.
