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Canada and the United States of America, Antarctic Exploration
Richard Evelyn BYRD (1888-1957). Skyward. New York & London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1928. 8° (216 x 148mm). Portrait frontispiece, 23 plates. Original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket (small tears to dust-jacket). First edition.
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R.E.BYRD. Into the Home of the Blizzard. [New York?]: New York Times Company and St.Louis Post-Despatch, 1928. 8° (245 x 162mm). Printed in light brown and black. 1 full-page illustration. Original limp wrappers (lightly soiled, small tears to margins). Provenance: Harald T.Clark (presentation copy). Rare ephemeral item produced just before Byrd's departure for Antarctica and his flight over the South Pole. Number 566 of an unstated limitation. The 'Limitation' leaf notes that this copy was 'Presented to Mr.Harald T.Clark with the compliments of Commander Richard E.Byrd with sincere appreciation of generous assistance in the financing of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition Number 566'.
Tide Water Oil Company (publishers). Highlights of the Byrd Antarctic Exploration. [New York?]: 1930. 4° (297 x 218mm). Illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers (some light scuffing); Operation Highjump. - Report of Operation Highjump U.S.Navy Antarctic development project [1947-1948]. 4 volumes, 4° (260 x 200mm). Numerous plates, maps and illustrations, some folding, numerous tabbed card section dividers. Later cloth. Provenance: Marselis C.Parsons, jr. (inscriptions dated 1955). These official reports were originally classified as restricted, however the inscriptions note that this restriction was lifted in May 1955. The four volumes appear to have been bound from leaves that were originally contained in four loose-leaf folders. They include punched holes at the inner margins and tabbed section dividers; together with 16 others in 32 volumes (including: OPERATION HIGHJUMP. Army Observer's Report of Operation Highjump Task Force 68, U.S.Navy, Washington, 1947, 4°; John S.O'BRIEN. By dog sled for Byrd 1600 miles across Antarctic Ice. Chicago, 1931, 'third printing', 8°; J.J.O'NEILL and others. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18, Ottawa, 1922-1924, vols.II & XI only, 8°; R.E.BYRD. Discovery, The story of the second Byrd Antarctic expedition, London, 1936, 8°; Kenneth J.BERTRAND. American Geographical Society. Special Publication No.39. Americans in Antarctica 1775-1948, New York, 1971, 8°). (39)
Richard Evelyn BYRD (1888-1957). Skyward. New York & London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1928. 8° (216 x 148mm). Portrait frontispiece, 23 plates. Original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket (small tears to dust-jacket). First edition.
[With:]
R.E.BYRD. Into the Home of the Blizzard. [New York?]: New York Times Company and St.Louis Post-Despatch, 1928. 8° (245 x 162mm). Printed in light brown and black. 1 full-page illustration. Original limp wrappers (lightly soiled, small tears to margins). Provenance: Harald T.Clark (presentation copy). Rare ephemeral item produced just before Byrd's departure for Antarctica and his flight over the South Pole. Number 566 of an unstated limitation. The 'Limitation' leaf notes that this copy was 'Presented to Mr.Harald T.Clark with the compliments of Commander Richard E.Byrd with sincere appreciation of generous assistance in the financing of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition Number 566'.
Tide Water Oil Company (publishers). Highlights of the Byrd Antarctic Exploration. [New York?]: 1930. 4° (297 x 218mm). Illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers (some light scuffing); Operation Highjump. - Report of Operation Highjump U.S.Navy Antarctic development project [1947-1948]. 4 volumes, 4° (260 x 200mm). Numerous plates, maps and illustrations, some folding, numerous tabbed card section dividers. Later cloth. Provenance: Marselis C.Parsons, jr. (inscriptions dated 1955). These official reports were originally classified as restricted, however the inscriptions note that this restriction was lifted in May 1955. The four volumes appear to have been bound from leaves that were originally contained in four loose-leaf folders. They include punched holes at the inner margins and tabbed section dividers; together with 16 others in 32 volumes (including: OPERATION HIGHJUMP. Army Observer's Report of Operation Highjump Task Force 68, U.S.Navy, Washington, 1947, 4°; John S.O'BRIEN. By dog sled for Byrd 1600 miles across Antarctic Ice. Chicago, 1931, 'third printing', 8°; J.J.O'NEILL and others. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18, Ottawa, 1922-1924, vols.II & XI only, 8°; R.E.BYRD. Discovery, The story of the second Byrd Antarctic expedition, London, 1936, 8°; Kenneth J.BERTRAND. American Geographical Society. Special Publication No.39. Americans in Antarctica 1775-1948, New York, 1971, 8°). (39)
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