Over the North Pole by George Baidukov - 1938

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]., 1938. First edition. First U. S. edition. Originally published in Russia and translated from the Russian by Jessica Smith. A review copy with the publisher's date stamp on the half title page. Light blue cloth, titles stamped in blue on the front cover and spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, xiv, 99 pp., preface, illustrated from photographs. Preface by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The story of the first trans-Polar flight, told in thrilling narrative by one of three Soviet aviators who flew the ANT-25 from Moscow to the United States in 1937. Former owner's small name and address label affixed to the top of the front pastedown sheet, light wear to the cloth spine ends with light age toning to the extremities in a fine, bright, very lightly used dust jacket.