2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/26/2025
First edition “The Steep Ascent” stated, first printing. Inscribed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh to former owners on the front free endpaper,”Louis Harris, Feb, ‘72, from A.M.L.” and signed by her again on the half-title page, Anne Morrow Lindberg”. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in white. Near Fine with light shelf lean, light rubbing to bottom edge of boards and spine ends. Pages lightly toned. In a Very Good dust jacket. A nice copy, signed and inscribed by the author. Kirkus Reviews wrote that "the literature of flight has no more gifted contributor than Anne Morrow Lindbergh", and that "her prose style has a rhythm tuned to the rhythm of flight". The critic commended the use of symbology, but wrote that "the immediate value and appeal of the book lies not there, but rather in the spiritual message it carries for each reader" ... plus, several newsclippings reporting her death, 2001.
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