That's My Story by Corrigan, Douglas - 1938: "Wrong Way Corrigan"

Robert Hale Limited, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1939. No Edition Remarks. 220 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Sepia photographic plates throughout and similar frontispiece. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and water staining. Spine heavily sunned and tanned, particularly at top and bottom. Some areas of sunning to boards. Silver lettering is dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping, rubbing and marking and large areas of loss.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardback. 221 pages .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Blue illustrated cloth. Lean to spine, head and tail rubbed with a few small tears. Spine sunned, boards discolored, extremities bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's paper label on paste-down endpaper. Endpapers lightly soiled. Fore-edge and bottom edge scuffed.

Dutton, 1939, 1939. Later ed. 221p. Nicknamed "Wrong Way" Corrigan after flying to Ireland instead of California in early 1938, Jacket priced. In mylar. SIGNED & inscribed 1939. Near Fine/Near Fine Copy. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated first edition, near fine with no dust jacket. Dark blue moire cloth with dark red lettering on spine and front board and illustration of a plane on the front board. Just slight wear to the spine ends and light soiling to the top edge of the pages. Includes 56 "gravure" illustrations; 221 pages. Nicknamed "Wrong Way" Corrigan after flying to Ireland instead of California in early 1938, this is the aviator's memoir. Signed (signature only) in green ink on the front endpaper.

Dutton. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with red titles, tanned pages and showing light shelf and edge wear only, this copy is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by CORRIGAN on the half title page. Cloth spine is sunned slightly. No Jacket.; Signed by Author .

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1938. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The man who became famous in popular cultural lore as "Wrong Way Corrigan" tells, for the first time, the true story behind that ill-fated flight & other details about his life, revealing himself to be the epitome of "all that's gay & unafraid in the spirit of American youth." In 221 pages with 56 gravure illustrations throughout text & photo frontispiece. A FIRST EDITION, First printing, SIGNED by the AUTHOR with a personalized & dated inscription to ffep, this hardcover 8vo has blue texture cloth-covered boards lettered & decorated in red to front & spine. Condition is VG+: generally very clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white with age-appropriate tanning to edges, else unmarked save for light foxing to outside edges. Modest rubbing to extremities, bumping to both corners & ends of spine.… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 221 pages; Dust jacket with light soiling, rubbing and edgewear. Gift inscription by author on front free endpaper. Someone has blacked out the last name of the recipient. ; Signed by Author .

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938. 221pp ---- Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: To Eddie Putman with best wishes - Douglas Corrigan 1-16-39 ---- [Putman's bookplate inside front cover; some browning to endpapers; small chip to top dust jacket spine; mild edge wear to jacket; some darkening to jacket]. Inscribed and Signed By the Author. First Edition stated. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Monochrome plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1938. CORRIGAN, Douglas. THAT'S MY STORY. With 56 Gravure Illustrations. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. First edition. Signed by "Wrong-Way" on the ffep: Douglas Corrigan, 1-23-39, Boston. Illustrations from photographs. 221 pp. 8vo., blue cloth, title printed in dark red at spine and upper board, top-edge stained yellow. A bright and near-fine copy overall, but with a slight lean at spine and occasional, light thumbing in margins. In an edgeworn and lightly soiled pictorial dust jacket, which is darkened at spine and has a small chip at heel.