Around the World in Eight Days

1931. First Edition. Signed. POST, Wiley, and GATTY, Harold. Around the World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae. New York: Rand McNally, (1931). Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. $2800.First edition, signed by both Post and Gatty on the half title, in scarce original dust jacket.This tale of their historic flight around the world in eight days and 16 hours is illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates, diagrams, and a facsimile of the log-book kept by Harold Gatty. With an introduction by Will Rogers who, four years later, died in a plane crash with Post at Point Barrow, Alaska. Cloth with mild stain at head of spine, original dust jacket with a bit of toning, a few shallow chips along top edge.