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Signed book: Around the World in 8 Days. First edition. NY: Rand McNally, 1931. Hardcover with dust jacket and "Introduction by Will Rogers" band, 6.25 x 8.75, 304 pages. Signed on the title page in fountain pen, "Wiley Post" and "Harold Gatty." In fine condition, with light sunning to the dust jacket spine.
Pilot Wiley Post (1898–1935), accompanied by navigator Harold Gatty (1903–1957), set the speed record for around-the-world flight during a trip completed on July 1, 1931. Post later became the first pilot to circle the globe solo. He died, along with humorist Will Rogers, when a plane he was piloting crashed during takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, Alaska.
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