Description
Signed limited edition of Alone by Polar Explorer Richard E. Byrd.
Octavo, ix, [3], 296pp. Full blue morocco with gilt double-ruled border on covers. Title in gilt on spine, raised bands with decorative gilt compartments. Marbled endpapers, decorative gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt. Uncut and unopened. Lacking the publisher’s original glassine dust jacket, and blue cardboard box.
(Conrad 291) (Fitzgerald 122)
From a limited edition of 225 copies, printed on rag paper and signed by the author. This is copy number 29 of 225.
A fine example.
Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) was an American naval officer and polar explorer. He is known for being the first explorer to reach the North Pole and South Pole by air, however this claim is disputed by historians.
