Girls at Work in Aviation

by Dickey Meyer (Chapelle)

First edition.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Beige covers with red ink border. 
• Boards show some dings, stains, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos. 
• Spine has red text and is bright with crushed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining, gift inscription on front fep.  
• Frontispiece is present. 
• Illustrations, black and white photographs, are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning, a few smudges, staining to top corner at rear of book, light edgewear at foot.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have untrimmed edges at foot.  
• Pictorial DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• DJ has some edgewear, chipped corners, chips along head edge and spine ends, closed tear to front, some staining to back, sunning of spine.  See photos.  
• PS2024.1030

209 pages. 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches

A very good copy of this first edition celebrating women in aviation and introducing girls to careers in the field.  Profusely illustrated with photographic images, many in factories and airplanes.  Original pictorial dust jacket under Mylar.  Published in wartime and in conformity to U.S. government regulations on materials.

The dust jacket flap notes that the book was "written by a young flier-journalist-photographer who has studied and written about aviation for the past eight years."  Twenty-four years old when Girls at Work in Aviation appeared, Dickey Meyer (1919-1965), aka Dickey Chapelle, studied aeronautics at MIT, then photography in New York, before going on to become a war correspondent and photographer.  She is known for being the first American reporter to die in military action, in Vietnam.  The 82nd Airborne named a drop zone after her and six marines served as her honor guard at the funeral. 

Gift inscription on the fep: "To Mary Ann from Ada 1944."

First edition, per the copyright page.  

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