[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Amelia Earhart: THE FUN OF IT

[Charles Agvent]

EARHART, Amelia. THE FUN OF IT. RANDOM RECORDS OF MY OWN FLYING AND OF 
WOMEN IN AVIATION. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First 
Edition. Illustrated with 31 photographs. SIGNED by the famous aviator 
on the center of the front free endpaper. Ink name and 1932 date at the 
top of the front endpaper with a note at the bottom of that page in the 
same hand describing the circumstances that led to the purchase of this 
autographed book during an August 1932 appearance by Earhart at a 
department store in Los Angeles. Lacking the recording in the rear 
pocket. Bright copy with just mild sunning to the spine tips. About 
Fine, lacking as usual the uncommon dustwrapper.
An assortment of autobiographical reminiscences and thoughts on the 
history of flight, women pilots, and the future of aviation, published 
shortly after Earhart became the first woman to fly alone over the 
Atlantic Ocean. In July 1937 Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished 
in the central Pacific after completing more than two-thirds of a flight 
around the world. (#015319)        $2,000.00

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