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Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957).
Little America Aerial exploration in the Antarctic The flight to the South Pole. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 8° (242 x 160mm.) Title in blue and black, portrait frontispiece, 55 plates, 4 maps and plans, 2 folding. (Some browning as usual.) Original boards.
Author's Autograph Edition, this a presentation copy, numbered 'L3', signed by Byrd and the publishers. The expedition landed at the Ross Ice Shelf on Christmas Day 1928 and within a fortnight had set up their base camp 'Little America'. The first flight was made on the 15 January 1929, but flying operations were soon closed down by the onset of winter. After over-wintering, the attempt on the Pole resumed seriously on 19 November with a preliminary flight to the foot of the Axel Heiberg Glacier to leave a fuel depot for the actual flight. Four men were to make the flight: Richard Byrd, navigator; Bernt Balchen, pilot; Harold June, radio operator; and Ashley McKinley, photographer. The plane, a Ford tri-motor Floyd Bennett, took off at 3.29 p.m. on 29 November 1929, the Pole was reached at 1.14 a.m. on 30 November, and eventually landed back at Little America at 10.10 a.m. Cf.Conrad p.253; Spence 227; Taurus 114.
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R.E.BYRD. Skyward New York & London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1928. 8° (242 x 162mm). Title in red and black. Portrait photogravure frontispiece, 55 plates on 32 leaves (46 plates printed recto and verso of 23 leaves, 9 photogravures), 1 folding map, two cloth samples of the fabric which covered the plane 'Josephine Ford' mounted beneath cellophane on front pastedown (as called for). Original half cloth.
Author's autograph edition, number 82 of 500 copies signed by Byrd and the publishers and with cloth samples from the plane which made the 'historic flight over the North Pole on May 9th, 1926'. An autobiographical account of Byrd's life from childhood, his naval service, North Polar and trans-Atlantic flights and ending with his plans for an expedition to fly to the South Pole (see above). (2)
Little America Aerial exploration in the Antarctic The flight to the South Pole. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 8° (242 x 160mm.) Title in blue and black, portrait frontispiece, 55 plates, 4 maps and plans, 2 folding. (Some browning as usual.) Original boards.
Author's Autograph Edition, this a presentation copy, numbered 'L3', signed by Byrd and the publishers. The expedition landed at the Ross Ice Shelf on Christmas Day 1928 and within a fortnight had set up their base camp 'Little America'. The first flight was made on the 15 January 1929, but flying operations were soon closed down by the onset of winter. After over-wintering, the attempt on the Pole resumed seriously on 19 November with a preliminary flight to the foot of the Axel Heiberg Glacier to leave a fuel depot for the actual flight. Four men were to make the flight: Richard Byrd, navigator; Bernt Balchen, pilot; Harold June, radio operator; and Ashley McKinley, photographer. The plane, a Ford tri-motor Floyd Bennett, took off at 3.29 p.m. on 29 November 1929, the Pole was reached at 1.14 a.m. on 30 November, and eventually landed back at Little America at 10.10 a.m. Cf.Conrad p.253; Spence 227; Taurus 114.
[With:]
R.E.BYRD. Skyward New York & London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1928. 8° (242 x 162mm). Title in red and black. Portrait photogravure frontispiece, 55 plates on 32 leaves (46 plates printed recto and verso of 23 leaves, 9 photogravures), 1 folding map, two cloth samples of the fabric which covered the plane 'Josephine Ford' mounted beneath cellophane on front pastedown (as called for). Original half cloth.
Author's autograph edition, number 82 of 500 copies signed by Byrd and the publishers and with cloth samples from the plane which made the 'historic flight over the North Pole on May 9th, 1926'. An autobiographical account of Byrd's life from childhood, his naval service, North Polar and trans-Atlantic flights and ending with his plans for an expedition to fly to the South Pole (see above). (2)
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