Skyward
New York/London: Putnam, Knickerbocker Press, 1928. Author's Autograph Edition. Hardcover. Three quarter blue cloth boards with gilt design and gilt lettering, duotone frontispiece with tissue guard, untrimmed pages, xv, 348 pp, 58 illustrations, portrait and folded map. VG (light wear to block and boards but pages and illustrations are very clean). Item #176899
Fabric swatch included inside front cover with inscription; "Above 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 9, 1926, piloted by Commander Richard E. Byrd." Title half page is signed by Richard E. Byrd. Five hundred numbered copies, this being 236 signed by Richard E. Byrd. Includes a foreword by William a. Moffett. "The volume also includes an extra series of plates in photogravure."- From the information we have, it is unclear whether this set of plates are lacking or bound in.
OCLC: 6465637
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