The Fun of It. Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation.

EARHART, Amelia.

Published by New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, [c.1934]

About this Item

Later printing, signed by Earhart on the front free endpaper. Her account of her growing obsession with flying concludes with a description of her 1932 historic solo transatlantic flight from Harbour Grace to Culmore, Northern Ireland. The Bakelite record reproduces the international broadcast she gave from London on 22 May 1932 following the flight. Octavo. Photographic half-tone portrait frontispiece, 30 halftone plates; Bakelite 78 record housed in rear pocket, gold sticker unsealed. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white. With dust jacket. Spine ends lightly rubbed, rear free endpaper with traces of paper and browning from loosely inserted newspaper clippings; jacket unclipped, general chipping spine with small hole and old adhesive tape repair: a very good copy in like jacket.

Seller Inventory # 192236

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fun of It. Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation.
• Publisher: New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, [c.1934]
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)