[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Amelia Earhart with Flag She Carried Across the Atlantic, Special Price Today

[Charles Agvent]

Special Price today of $8000 net in commemoration of the anniversary of 
Earhart's disappearance on this day in 1937.

EARHART, Amelia. 20 HRS. 40 MIN. 0UR FLIGHT IN THE FRIENDSHIP. THE 
AMERICAN GIRL, FIRST ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BY AIR, TELLS HER STORY. New 
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Large octavo in original 
maroon cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Illustrated with numerous 
photographs. Copy #12 of only 150 SIGNED "Amelia M. Earhart" by the 
famous aviator as well as by the publisher and containing, as issued by 
the publisher in a cellophane envelope mounted on the front pastedown, a 
miniature silk American flag carried by Earhart in her flight on the 
"Friendship" from Boston to Wales. Although Earhart was not the pilot of 
this flight, with it she made history by becoming the FIRST WOMAN TO 
TRAVEL BY AIR ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. Not only is this volume signed by 
this famous figure, but it contains an actual artifact from that 
historic flight. Earhart was lost at sea in her attempt, shortly before 
her fortieth birthday in 1937, to become the first woman to fly around 
the world. After her disappearance the most extensive air and sea search 
in naval history to date took place. After spending $4 million and 
scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean over a two-week period, the 
United States government reluctantly called off the operation. Bookplate 
of George H. Kirkman on the verso of the front free endpaper. Neatly 
repaired paper splits to front hinge. Tight and clean. Close to Fine 
copy of a scarce and desirable book housed in a custom silk clamshell 
box with a gilt-lettered morocco label. (#013906)        $11,000.00

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