Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 154
BYRD, Richard Evelyn (1888?1957). Skyward. New York and Lon...
Estimate: $100 - $200
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BYRD, Richard Evelyn (1888?1957). Skyward. New York and London: G. P. Putnam?s Sons, 1928. 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, illustrations from photographs. Publisher?s blue cloth lettered in gilt; original dust jacket (minor edge creases). FIRST EDITION of the author?s autobiography. Provenance: Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Byrd to Edward H. Rithedge(?) on frontispiece. With addition presentation inscription by Richard W. Saunders to Rithedge(?): ?As I write these lines in the book Commander Byrd has autographed for you, he is now plowing through the ice on his way to the south pole??.
