American pilot (1907–1995) best remembered for a 1938 navigational 'error' (now widely believed to have been a purposeful protest against government red tape) that landed him in Dublin instead of his stated destination of California. Signed book: That's My Story. First edition. NY: E. P. Dutton, 1938. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 221 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "To Grey W. Vaughn, with best wishes—Douglas Corrigan, 3-29-39, 'West to Ireland.'" In fine condition, with light sunning to the dust jacket spine.
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