Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.
The author's autograph edition of Richard Byrd's Little America; one of one thousand numbered copies signed by him
Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
$400.00
Item Number: 140404
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Byrd’s account of his first expedition to the South Pole. Octavo, original publisher’s half parchment over blue boards, with 74 illustrations and maps. Author’s Autograph Edition, one of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author and publisher on the limitation leaf, this is number 139. In very good condition.
Admiral Byrd here chronicles his first expedition to the Antarctic which began aboard two ships and three airplanes in 1928 and returned to North America in 1930. The expedition's base camp, constructed on the Ross Ice Shelf was named "Little America", and it was from here that Byrd's scientific expeditions by snowshoe, dog-sled, snowmobile, and airplane began. On November 28, 1929, after the team's first winter in the Antarctic, the first flight to the South Pole and back was launched, and successfully completed, with a total flight time of 18 hours and 41 minutes.
