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Around the world in eight days. The flight of the Winnie Mae. Introduction by Will Rogers.

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Around the world in eight days. The flight of the Winnie Mae. Introduction by Will Rogers.

by POST, Wiley & GATTY, Harold

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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, [1931]. 8vo. 304 pp., plus 16 pp. of facsimile reproduction of the original log book. Frontisp. photo, numerous photo illust., maps on endpapers. Blue cloth, yellow lettering, fore-edges uncut (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of the Winnie Mae, a modified Lockheed 5C Vega hurtling across the globe (chipping & minor tears to upper fore-edge, minor chipping head of spine, couple closed tears), still VG/G- copy. Garden City reprint of this work detailing the world record flight around the world by Post and navigator Garry in eight days. Tragically the introduction was written by Will Rogers, with whom Wiley Post was killed in August, 1935 in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.

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Bookseller
Zephyr Used & Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
56814
Title
Around the world in eight days. The flight of the Winnie Mae. Introduction by Will Rogers.
Author
POST, Wiley & GATTY, Harold
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Garden City Publishing,
Place of Publication
Garden City, NY:
Date Published
[1931].
Keywords
Aviation, Aeronautics, Post, Gatty, Oklahoma, Australia, Travel, Adventure, Lockheed 5C Vega, Cover art, Art Deco, Will Rogers, Alaska, Winnie Mae, Memoirs,

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