(Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, [1930]).

A HANDSOME POPULAR HISTORY OF ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION, published at the height of worldwide fascination with polar exploration, just after Byrd’s famous flights over the poles and the establishment of “Little America” in Antarctica. The book attempts to tell the entire history of polar exploration: from Vikings and early Arctic voyages through explorers like, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and most especially Richard Evelyn Byrd.
The forewords are by notable scientific and exploration figures General Adolphus W. Greely and Henry Fairfield Osborn. Osborn was president of the American Museum of Natural History. Greely was commander of the 'Lady Franklin Bay' during the North Polar Expedition and is largely regarded to be one of the toughest and most remarkable figures in Arctic exploration. He led a scientific expedition to the high Arctic as part of the First International Polar Year. The party established a station at Fort Conger in what is now Nunavut, Canada. Item #34875

First Edition. With a colour frontispiece of the 'Floyd Bennett', Byrd's aircraft for his flight over Antarctica and with 127 illustrations on glossy plates being from portraits, photographs, paintings, historic prints, etc., and with colour charts of the northern and southern Polar regions as endpapers. Also with the first complete chart ever compiled by historians of polar explorations from Pytheas in 325 B.C. to Richard Byrd's 1929 flight across the South Pole. 8vo, in the publisher's original light blue cloth, the upper cover lettered in silver and black and with a large colour pastedown replicating the frontispiece within a black framework, the spine lettered in silver and black and ruled in black. 384 pp. An attractive and well preserved copy in very good condition.