1000 Years of Polar Exploration – Including the Achievements of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. with Forewords by General A.W. Greely and Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Signed by Lawrence Gould and John O’Brien

Miller, Francis Trevalyan, LL.D., Litt.D.

Philadelphia, Chicago and Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1930. 1st Edition. 8vo – 22.4cm. 384pp. Flights for the Top of the World and detailed Chronology of Explorations at the rear; illustrated with a colored frontispiece and black-and-white photographs and drawings. Publisher’s blue cloth with colored cartographic end leaves of the north and south polar regions. Silver tiles and color image on front cover are bright, spine silver also bright; very light wear to extremities. A Near Fine and complete copy in a lovely unclipped dust jacket in Very Good condition.

This unique copy is signed twice. On page 63, the full-page black-and-white photographic plate of Lawrence Gould is signed by him. Gould was second in command of Byrd’s expedition and served as expedition geologist. On page 76, the full-page photographic plate of John O’Brien is signed by O’Brien. He served as chief surveyor and Assistant to Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.

The book presents a well-researched history of polar expeditions, by Admiral Byrd and many others.

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