Earhart, Amelia. The Fun of It. Brewer, Warren & Putnam, New York, 1932. First Edition.
 
•  Format: 8vo, 218 pp.
 
•  Binding: Publisher’s brown cloth, titles stamped in white on front panel and spine.
 
•  Condition: Very Good or better. Small bump to upper front board, softening to spine tips with minor fraying at lower tip. Some fading to the Publisher name at lower spine. Interior clean and unmarked; offsetting to rear endpapers from jacket and record sleeve.
 
•  Dust Jacket: Very Good, unclipped with $2.50 price present. Light wear with edge creasing, chipping at spine ends, and a few closed tears (archival document tape repairs visible on verso). Overall, a more attractive example than typically encountered.
 
•  Illustrations: Photographic frontispiece and 31 illustrations throughout.
 
•  Points of Issue: First edition and printing, with matching dates to title and copyright pages, no subsequent printings listed. One-page publisher’s ad at rear for “Aviation Books by Women.”
 
•  Special Feature: Original pocket at rear pastedown containing the rare 78 rpm Silvertone phonograph record of Earhart’s international broadcast address from London, May 1932 — still new and un-played.
 
Notes
Earhart’s memoir, published the same year as her historic solo transatlantic flight, offers a firsthand account of her pioneering aviation achievements. The inclusion of the fragile phonograph record — seldom found intact — makes this copy especially desirable.