May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BYRD, RICHARD. Skyward. Map and plates. 8vo, publisher's 1/2 cloth, very minor rubbing. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928

Additional Details

author's autograph edition. one of 500 numbered copies signed by byrd and with a small piece of his plane affixed to the front pastedown.
Byrd's claim to have flown over the North Pole on 9 May 1926 has since been disproven. Nevertheless, this edition of Skyward is a collectible and handsome book. Books on Ice 8.13.

with--To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd. Edited by Raimund Goerler. Columbus, 1998.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.