"Up", a True Story of Aviation

Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers mildly worn but clean, minor wear to edges with a creasing tear down top 2" of dj spine. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women’s rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.