Little America Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole by Byrd, Richard E. (Rear Adm., USN(Ret.) - 1930

Concordia Publishing House, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG-. 16 mo. Very clean copy in vinyl-like charcoal boards with gilt titling

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good-/NO DUSTJACKET. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Sm 4to., 422 pp., cover water damaged and some pages, bumped, toned margins .

New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930. Lg. 8vo. xvi, 422 pp. Title in red & blk. Frntsp. port., 73 photo illust., 4 maps (2 large folding). Blue cloth, w/ gilt lettrng, a superb near fine copy. First edition of this excellent account of exploring Antartica, the southernmost continent and the South Pole.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 1930 Fourth Impression. hardcover. xvi, 422pp, 74 illusts, maps, original blue cloth with gilt, VG in VG- dw with a little edge wear.. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 422pp, Stated First Edition, Blue cloth hardcover, no dustjacket, illustrated, with 2 fold-out maps at rear. Portrait frontispiece detached but laid in. Three portions of the 4 January 1931 rotogravure section of the New York Times laid in. Gilt cover and spine lettering. No other marks or tears. Bright and clean..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. xvi, 436 pp. Octavo. Original vellum, blue cloth, and gilt lined boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. This volume comes in its original glassine and box. Lid of the box is somewhat tattered. Uncut edges, slightly dust soiled. 74 illustrations and four maps, including two folding maps. This book is one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Byrd and the publishers on the limitation leaf, printed from a different type setting than the trade edition. This book is numbered 582. A fine copy in the box. Spence 227. "Preceded by a shower of crystals, I descended slowly.... I found myself standing in a grotto, with the domed walls curving in above me, and the refracted illumination from the searchlight falling through the slit rose in a glorious rainbow." So wrote Richard Evelyn Boyd, in a chapter from Little America entitled, "Civilization Doesn't Matter." This book is the story of a large and well-funded American expedition to Antarctica. Boyd… Read More