One World - The Photographic Album Edition

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Special Limited Edition.. Clean hardcover book in original box - limited edition (1500 copies of which this is number 780) - SIGNED by Wendell Wilkie. Clean decorated paper-covered boards depicting outer space; brown leather spine with gold lettering. Light scuffing to spine edges, ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean photographic front endpapers showing air view of Manhattan; rear endpapers are blank. No names, writing or bookplates; light foxing to endpapers. All text pages very clean and bright, with beautiful black & white world photographs throughout. 221 pages + Limitation and signature page at rear of book. In original black paper-covered clamshell box with gold lettering on cover and spine; slight wear to lid corners, light dust soiling. Wendell Wilkie's trip around the world in a four-engined consolidated bomber, to see what he could of the world and the war, its battle fronts, its leaders, and its people. This is a well-photographed and documented record of his trip. "I had traveld a total of 31,000 miles, which--looked at as a figure--still impresses and almost bewilders me. For the net impression of my trip was not one o distance from other peoples, but of closeness to them. If I had ever had any doubts that the world has become small and completely interdependent, this trip would have dispelled them altogether." Wendell Willkie was the 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States. Although defeated in the election (he ran against Franklin Roosevelt) Willkie had become a major figure on the public scene, and at age 48, was deemed likely to remain one for years to come..