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Item Details
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| Author: |
Byrd, Richard Evelyn |
| Title: |
Skyward |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Putnam's |
| Date: |
1928 |
| Item # : |
206009 |
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| Sale Number |
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424 |
| Lot Number |
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8 |
| Sale Name |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 780 |
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| Description: |
| [2], xv, [1], 348 pp. With 58 plates with printed tissue guards including frontispiece portrait after a pencil sketch & others from photographs; portions of the fabric from the Josephine Ford with gilt lettered description mounted on front pastedown. 9¾x6¼, half gilt-ruled blue cloth & boards, gilt lettered spine. No. 463 of 500 copies. "Author's Autograph Edition." |
| Signed by Byrd to the limitation page. Pieces of the plane, which flew over the North Pole on May 9th, 1926, are naturally scarce. |
| Condition: |
| Corners ever so slighly worn, else near fine. |
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