American military pilot (1929–1977) who attained worldwide notoriety in 1960 when the U-2 spy plane he was piloting was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was killed in 1977 when the news helicopter he was flying ran out of fuel and crashed a few miles from the airport. Signed book: Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time. First edition. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 375 pages. Signed and inscribed on a free end page in black felt tip, “To Lorraine Armstrong, Best wishes, It was nice talking to you, Francis Gary Powers, June 20, 1970.” A uniform block of toning to the signed page, and some light creasing, soiling, and chipping to dust jacket, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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