LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF BYRD’S LITTLE AMERICA, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

BYRD, Richard Evelyn. Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Octavo, original three-quarter Japan vellum, sky-blue cloth boards and endpapers, uncut. $800.

Signed limited first edition, number 572 of 1000 copies signed by Byrd and the publisher, "Author's Autograph Edition" featuring 74 maps and illustrations, including frontispiece portrait and two folding maps.

"The expedition discovered a part of Antarctica now known as Marie Byrd Land, the Rockefeller and Ford mountain ranges, and the 10,000-foot La Gorce Mountain. Some 150,000 square miles of territory was photographed. In June 1930 the expedition returned to New York to a hero's welcome. Byrd undertook an extensive lecture tour and published Little America to pay off the expedition's debts" (ANB). Without scarce glassine and cardboard box. Conrad, 253. Taurus, 114.

Plates and maps fine, mild embrowning to text pages; publisher's vellum with slight toning to spine and along top edge. A near-fine copy.