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: 81043
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition of Lindbergh’s autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page prior to publication, “To Clifford F. Scherer With best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh August, 1953.” The recipient Clifford F. Scherer was a senior vice-president of Morgan Guaranty, the successor to J.P. Morgan & Company. Lindbergh’s father-in-law, Dwight Morrow, had been a partner in J.P. Morgan before he entered politics. Lindbergh was one of Morgan’s select clients, along with Calvin Coolidge and John Pershing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George W. Thompson. A nice association.
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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