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AVIATION] LINDBERGH, CHARLES A. The Spirit of St. Louis . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Inscribed by Lindbergh on the title page to Dave Read and dated 1953. Later printing. Publisher's cloth, in original dust jacket with $5.00 price. Publisher's cloth, in original dust jacket. 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (21.5 x 14 cm); 562 pp. Jacket rubbed along joints, extremities and corners with small losses, lightly rubbed at cloth spine tips and corners, a few spots. Inscribed in the year of publication to Dr. David Read, nephew of the author James Thurber and friends of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the 1950s. He is mentioned in both Reeve Lindbergh's memoirs and A. Scott Berg's recent biography of the aviator. C