Description
The first edition, second printing of The Fun Of It, signed by Amelia Earhart.
Octavo, [8], 218pp. Brown cloth, title stamped in white on spine and cover. Stated “second printing” on copyright page. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 31 illustrated plates. Lacking the publisher’s phonographic record, usually affixed to rear endpaper. Solid text block, previous tape remnants to covers. Multiple previous ownership stamps throughout, most notably along front and rear leaves. Light rubbing to cloth corners, faint offsetting to endpapers. Complete with 31 plates, including frontispiece, lightly stained along tips. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, heavily worn with tape repairs to verso. Sunned spine, small losses to head and tail, with ownership stamps on panels. Jacket was laminated by a previous owner for stabilization.
Signed by Amelia Earhart on a tipped-in half-title page.
A problematic copy.
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.
