Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters (signed) by Sullenberger, Captain Chesley B. (signed); with Jeffrey Zaslow - 2009

New York: William Morrow, 2009. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR as "Sully" directly on the title page. Because this copy is signed DIRECTLY on the title page, it means that Captain Sullenberger personally handled the book (unlike copies with only a signed bookplate). Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (only very lightly rubbed). NO chips, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($25.99). Corners are NOT bumped. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Clean, square, and tight. Pages are creamy white, crisp and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. 2009. First Printing with "First Edition" so stated and a complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original blue boards, with a red spine stamped in blue. From the dust jacket: "In this inspirational autobiography, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he believes have been so vital to his success. In January 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in history when Captain Sullenberger brought a crippled US Airways flight onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all [155] passengers and crew aboard... From his earliest memories of learning to fly as a teenager in a crop duster's single engine plane... to his years in the United States Air Force at the controls of a powerful F-4 Phantom...". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii, 340pp. + 16 pages of color photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.