Airborne - A Sentimental Journey - By William F. Buckley, Jr
signed first edition
1976 · New York
by BUCKLEY JR,. WILLIAM F. & CHARLES CHAPLIN
New York: Macmillan, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. From the library of the great actor, writer, and director Charles Chaplin. Signed presentation copy to Charles Chaplin and his wife Oona. Inscribed “For Charles & Oona Chaplin - With warm regards, Bill Buckley” on a specially printed label affixed to the flyleaf. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some tiny tears. Illustrated with photographs. A very interesting association and friendship as Buckley, one of America’s most noted political conservatives and found of the magazine National Review, and Chaplin whose liberal political views got him exiled from America during the McCarthy Era.”Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr., describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with this son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a cream, for fifteen months a planned operation always at risk: one doesn’t set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean....” (Inventory #: 15319J)