Signed book: ‘WE.’ Special author's autograph edition, limited issue, numbered 941/1000. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover with scarce glassine dust jacket, 6.75 x 10.25, 308 pages. Signed on the colophon in fountain pen, "Charles A. Lindbergh." The book includes its original publisher’s note, 8-page booklet, and half of its blue presentation box. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/G, with losses to the glissine jacket.
Accompanied by a ticket stub for Lindbergh’s famed reception in New York’s City Hall Plaza on June 13, 1927, the same day he was honored with a ticker tape parade, and a flown ‘WE’ commemorative cover from Peoria Post No. 2 American Legion, with two stamped horseshoe cachets reading “Lindbergh Again Flies the Airmail,” postmarked in Peoria, Illinois, on February 21, 1928. After barnstorming and piloting in the Army Reserve, Charles Lindbergh started flying mail between St. Louis and Chicago in 1925. The job provided sound experience flying in all conditions. Following his 1927 solo transatlantic flight, Lindbergh used his newfound fame to advance aviation however he could — from organizing transcontinental airline service to making promotional air mail flights over his old route. Lindbergh flew a series of special airmail flights over his old route on February 20 and February 21, 1928, to raise awareness of the airmail service. Lindbergh and two other pilots flew between St. Louis and Chicago, with each piece of mail they carried receiving this special 'horseshoe' stamp. The demand for these covers was so high that three planes were needed to carry it all, but the Post Office Department assured everyone that Lindbergh at least took each plane for a trip around the airfield, so each piece of mail got flown by him.
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