Gift from the Sea
Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh. First edition, eighth printing. Both dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Jacket is unclipped with original price $2.75 on inside flap, in a mylar protective wrapper. The jacket was designed by Heorge W. Thompson and author photograph by Lucia Nebel White. No writing or markings in this well preserved book, 128 pp. New York: Pantheon Books, 1955.
This was the author's fifth book, her thoughts of personal self-awareness. A modern inspirational classic and perennial bestseller that has gone through a number of editions, sold over three million copies, and been translated into forty-five languages. Meets all publisher's first edition points: 4 previous books listed, no review blurbs.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, and later New York City, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1928. She married Charles in 1929, and in 1930 became the first woman to receive a U.S. glider pilot license. Throughout the early 1930's, she served as radio operator and copilot to Charles on multiple exploratory flights and aerial surveys. Following the 1932 kidnapping and murder of their eldest child, Anne and Charles moved to Europe in 1935 to escape the American press and hysteria surrounding the case.