The Spirit of St. Louis.
"Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again": First Edition of The Spirit of St. Louis; Inscribed by Charles A. Lindbergh Prior To Publication
The Spirit of St. Louis.
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
Item Number: 4216
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh on the title page prior to publication, “To Peter H. Vermilye With best wishes from Charles A Lindbergh August, 1953 Publication date is Sept. 14th.” The recipient, Peter Vermilye was a leading figure in Boston’s financial community and a trustee at Boston University for 38 years. Some rubbing to the spine ends, an excellent copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography, this is Charles Lindbergh’s riveting account of the first nonstop flight between the United States and Europe he undertook in 1927. "At its exciting best, this book keeps the reader cockpit close to a rare adventure" (Time).
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