Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
AMUNDSEN, ROALD; and ELLSWORTH, LINCOLN. Air Pioneering in the Arctic: The Two Polar Flights of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth. Part I: The 1925 Flight from Spitzbergen to 88 North; Part II: The First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1926. 70 plates, chiefly reproducing photographs; 3 maps. Folio, original cloth, spine slightly faded; publisher's cloth slipcase. St. Paul's School bookplate; mounted on the endpapers are 2 1929 TLsS from Ellsworth's brother-in-law Bernard Prentice, the first presenting this copy to the library at St. Paul's, and the second accompanying a related picture also mounted in the book. New York: National Americana Society, 1929