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Hardcover, full genuine blue leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 562 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, “privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics.” Illustrated with color frontispiece, photographs and drawings from the first edition. An extensive appendix follows the text, as well as a glossary. Illustrations contained in the appendix include three-view drawings of the plane, figures giving performance curves, et alia. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography in 1954. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new.