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The Steep Ascent
by Anne Morow Lindbergh
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st ed. Signed, half title page. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH dated her inscription on March 17th,1944 - the very date of original publication. Additionally, there is a mailing envelope - written in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's hand - postmarked from her home in Michigan to Mr. Conger Goodyear, a philanthropist & industrialist best known as a founding member of the New York Museum of Modern Art. industrialist "The Steep Ascent" is a fictionalized account of an actual flight event which occurred over the Alps - Anne Morrow Lindbergh's husband, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, was flying the plane of that event. Mrs. Lindbergh herself was a noted aviator -- she first flew solo in 1929, became the first American woman to earn a 1st-class glider pilot's license in 1930, and made many exploratory flights with her husband. "This is an explorer's book... about a woman's reaction to the power and beauty of flight" -- Atlantic Monthly In fine condition. Dust-jacket in excellent shape. Slip-case shows some scuff marks..
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- Bookseller
- Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- dz240
- Title
- The Steep Ascent
- Author
- Anne Morow Lindbergh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Aviation;
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About the Seller
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