Skyward
By Richard Evelyn Byrd
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928. With a foreword by William A. Moffett. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in; 242 x 158 mm). [2], xv, [1, blank], 348 pp. Ten photogravure plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and forty-six photographic plates on twenty-three leaves (58 illustrations total); fold-out map at end. Original half blue cloth gilt over blue paper boards with spine stamped in gilt. Edges untrimmed. A Near Fine copy. Mounted on the front pastedown endpaper is a portion of the fabric (showing both sides) which covered the plane Josephine Ford on her historic flight over the North Pole on May 9th, 1926.
Author’s Deluxe Autographed Edition – copy #J3 for presentation.
Signed by R E Byrd and G P Putnams SonsOne of Five Hundred Copies Signed and inscribed by Dick Byrd “To my friend van Lea Black the salt of the Earth from Dick Byrd, N. Y. City, Sept. 28, 1928”.
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