20 hrs. 40 mins. Our Flight in the Friendship, Signed by Amelia Earhart, First Trade Edition, 1928
Earhart, Amelia. 20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. New York: G. P. Putnam's and Sons, 1928. First trade edition. Signed on the free endpage. Rebound in maroon ¼ leather and cloth maroon boards with gilt titles, gilt tooling, raised bands to the spine, with a new archival slipcase. Presented is a signed, first trade edition of Amelia Earhart’s 20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The book was published by G.P. Putnam’s and Sons in November of 1928. The celebrated pilot signed the book on the free endpage in blue ink. It is presented here rebound in its maroon quarter leather and cloth boards with gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to the spine. The book has a new archival slipcase. Amelia Earhart is arguably one of the most famous pilots to date. This book narrates Earhart's personal account of her experiences as the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane, as a passenger in Wilmer Stultz's plane Friendship in 1928. Detailing her first transatlant