AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHT DAYS: THE FLIGHT OF THE WINNIE MAE by Post, Wiley & Gatty, Harold

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

Published by The Aviation Book Club, John Hamilton Ltd., 1932 (Circa.). Hardback. Very Good/Good. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. A complete and intimate account of the authors' adventures around the world in eight days in the 'Winnie Mae'. Green boards, black title to spine. B/w photos. Spine and corners slightly bumped, cover edges lightly rubbed. Name in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn.

Rand McNally, 1931., 1931. 1st printing august 1931. 304p. Photos + facsimile of their log book. Rear flyleaf torn in half with old scotch tape repair.Spine slightly darkened. Good copy. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Book.

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.