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Garden City Pub. Co., 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Early printing. A Very Good or better copy in a dustjacket with some shallow chipping at the peripheries.

Hardback, dust jacket has rubbed edges, some small tears, in plastic wrap now, book spine ends and corners rubbed, a wrinkle on top front edge, print bright on spine, pages a little yellowed, text clean

London: John Hamilton Ltd., n.d. Octavo, greenboards (hardcover), 221 pp + Log Book. Very Good+, with light foxing and neat former-owner bookplate; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: A sleek, white plane, speeding like a streaking bullet, roars out of the west and sets the world afire with enthusiasm for its feat -- the circling of the earth in eight days. “Two young men in a hurr,” have spun this strudy monoplane around the globe, thereby winning for themselves a place with the immortals of the air. They have clipped the zero off Jules Vere’s once incredible 80 days, cut over three years from the time-record of the first circumnavigation of the world -- Magellan’s -- and beat the “Graf Zeppelin” by 12 days. In Around the World in Eight Days, W. Post and H. Gatty give a complete and intimate account of their wonderful adventure. With the same apparent ease with which the flew the “Winnie Mae” to victory, these… Read More

NY: Rand McNally. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. Photographs; 8.5 X 11; 304, [16] pages; Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Around the World in 8 Days. The Flight of the Winnie Mae. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Harold Gatty in bold black pen on half-title. Obedie the notation that, "Wiley Post and Will Rogers killed in airplane crash August 16th 1935 at Point Barrow Alaska. Cctavo. 304 pages. Photographic frontispiece of Winnie Mae and crew, plus fifteen photographs. Facsimile reprint of Harold Gatty's log book of the flight of the Winnie Mae, fifteen pages, in the rear. Publisher's light green cloth with dark green titles. Map endpapers; Signed by Author .

New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED BY POST AND BY GATTY and rare thus. Original cloth, a bit soiled, lacking DJ. Housed in a custom clamshell box.