Name/Title
"20 HRS. 40 MIN"Entry/Object ID
2002.176.1.1Description
Color: Gold; Red
"20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship," by Amelia Earhart (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons and The Knickerbocker Press, 1928), 314 pp. The hardcover book has a red cover with the title at the top of the front and the author's name at the bottom in gold letters and the same, but with the publisher's name added, on the spine. The book is an autobiography covering Earhart's life from birth to her transatlantic flight in 1928 and contains thirteen chapters. There are also brief biographies of Wilmer Stultz, pilot, and Louis Edward Gordon, mechanic, who accompanied Earhart on her famed flight. Sixty-one photographs are included in the book, which is in fair condition with cover rubbing to the spine, edges, and corners, dents at the corners, fading of the spine lettering, and soiling, discoloration, foxing, and some stains on pages. There are also several inscriptions on the front flysheet.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Books, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, Women air pilots