Airport.

HAILEY, Arthur [President Gerald R. Ford].

$1,200.00

Item Number: 148462

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968.

First edition of the author’s New York Times bestselling third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to Gerald R. Ford on the second free endpaper, “For Congressman Gerald R. Ford I hope this book may be of interest, and perhaps the one to follow it – set in Detroit, Michigan…With Thanks and all good wishes Arthur Hailey and Family July 1969.” The recipient, Gerald R. Ford, was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He assumed office following the Watergate scandal and sought to restore public trust in government through a message of transparency and national healing. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph courtesy of American Airlines – Bob Takis. From the collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.

Arthur Hailey (1920–2004) was a British-Canadian novelist best known for his meticulously researched and commercially successful novels that dramatize the inner workings of complex industries, such as aviation, banking, healthcare, and hospitality. With bestsellers like Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), and The Moneychangers (1975), Hailey pioneered a form of procedural fiction that combined suspenseful storytelling with detailed institutional analysis. Airport is set over the course of a single night at a major American airport beset by a snowstorm, the novel interweaves multiple storylines involving airport operations, personal conflicts, and a looming security crisis. As both a New York Times bestseller and a basis for the successful 1970 film adaptation, Airport helped define the modern disaster genre and reinforced Hailey’s reputation as a master of the procedural novel.