Description
The first edition of “We,” The Famous Flier’s Own Story of His Life and His Transatlantic Flight, signed by Charles Lindbergh and the U.S. Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick. The only known copy signed by Ambassador Herrick.
Octavo, [4], 318pp. Blue cloth, title and illustrations stamped in gilt. Stated “First Edition” on the copyright page, with no additional printings noted. This work is complete with a frontispiece portrait and 47 halftone images throughout. Illustrated endpapers. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $2.50 on the front flap, light sunning to the spine, chip to head of spine, a few tape repairs to verso over closed tears, a very good example, scarce in this condition.
This copy is signed by Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, who hosted Lindbergh in Paris after his successful flight. Additionally signed by Charles Lindbergh and dated “March 27, 1928.”
This first book by Charles Lindbergh was an account of his historic transatlantic flight in 1927, but he was never happy with the publication. To correct this, he published The Spirit of St. Louis in 1953, which he felt accurately described the flight. Spirit of St. Louis went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography in 1954. Charles’ wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was a ghostwriter on the book, and its success is widely attributed to her writing skills.
Myron T. Herrick (1854-1929) was an American politician, diplomat, and banker who served as the 42nd governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906. A Republican, he later became the U.S. ambassador to France from 1912 to 1914 and again from 1921 until his death in 1929. He played a key role in maintaining U.S.-French relations during World War I and was instrumental in assisting Americans stranded in France at the outbreak of the war. Herrick died in Paris on March 31, 1929.
