The Fun of It.

EARHART, Amelia.

Item Number: 102995

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

Early printing of Earhart’s account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. Reed Whitney in memory of a time she did our-night-stands for our days Amelia Earhart.” The recipient and Earhart were friends at the time of the publication of this work. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

The Fun of It covers Earhart's life through May 20-21, 1932, "when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of Londonderry, Ireland. The flight set a transatlantic record of 14 hours, 56 minutes… and stirred such public adulation that she confided, 'I'll be glad when the zoo part is over'" (ANB).