Gray Edith Jack Stearns (11 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers mildly worn but clean, minor wear to edges with a creasing tear down top 2" of dj spine. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers mildly worn but clean, minor wear to edges with a 1" closed tear at bottom dj spine. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers mildly worn but clean, minor wear to edges with small closed tear to bottom spine. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers mildly worn, mild foxing top front dj, minor wear to edges with light chipping top spine. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers a bit worn but clean, minor wear to edges with a few minor chips, small closed tear to bottom rear. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers a bit worn but clean, minor wear to edges with a few minor chips, small closed tear to bottom rear. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers lightly worn but clean, minor wear to edges yet no major chips or tears, in mylar cover. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Signed by "Jack" Gray. 384pp, octavo hardcover in blue cloth. light wear to book edges, boards clean, tight binding, interior clean. DJ covers lightly worn but clean, minor wear to edges yet no major chips or tears. "Jack" became the first woman from Virginia to go up in an airplane and the first woman ever to fly over the Adirondack Mountains. Later, she became the first woman to take off in an airplane from Virginia soil. Her family dined with President Teddy Roosevelt. She was a crusader for women's rights, and led the suffrage movement in Culpeper County. signed by author.

Tall 8vo. xv, [1], 384 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates, decorated initials. Blue ribbed publisher's cloth, silver metallic lettering & illustration on front cover, w/ d.j. cover art photo of "Jack Stearns Gray by C.R. Wood, illust. in metallic silver & black (slight dustsoiling), NF/NF copy, signed by the author on ffep. First edition, signed (1st issue w/ pictorial jacket), of this unique and fascinating memoir of the first woman from Virginia to fly from Virginia soil. The author and her husband - George A. Gray -- were barnstormers all over Virginia and the East Coast in their Wright Model B. Gray (1890-1961) took her first flight in 1912, knew most of the aviation pioneers, including Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Glenn Curtis, the Wright Brothers, and many others. She details many of the women fliers from her flying days, including Elinor Smith, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder Camp, Opal Kunz, and many others.