BYRD'S GREAT ADVENTURE: With The Complete Story Of All Polar Explorations For One Thousand Years. by Miller, Francis Trevelyan - (1930.)

Chicago Philadelphia Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bright gilt lettering & colorful Byrd Antarctic Expedition tri-motor aircraft pictorial on blue cloth covered boards. Map end papers. 8vo, 383pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 First American Edition/First Printing, Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. Special Preview Edition sitcker to the bottom of the rear jacket. 291 pages. The author's book about the 1990 kidnapping of ten Columbian men and women - all journalists but one, by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar. Small worn round price sticker to the bottom of the spine under the clear protective Brodart book cover, that also has a few taped pieces holding in in place on the book's boards. A very good clean and solid book. No interior writing or marks. Appears unread.

1930. Hardcover. Good. [144] p.: color frontispiece, 63 black-and-white illustrations; 23 cm. Grey-blue cloth with silver-stamped title on both front and back covers; color illustrated pastedown on front cover. No dust jacket. Includes 8 page order form following text with no orders filled in. This is a saleman's dummy for a book published in 1930 by subscription by several publishers (J.C. Winston, Philadelphia; Stanley Paul, London; Universal Book and Bible House, Philadelphia) under several slightly varying titles. This salesman's dummy contains the frontispiece, the foreword by Major General A.W. Greely, table of contents, list of illustrations, samples of the text and illustrations (primarily photographs), and the subscription forms. The silver and black printing on the back cover is presumably the sample of the proposed spine title, the spine of the salesman's dummy not being wide enough to accomodate it. There is no title page, presumably because it was going to be issued… Read More

John C. Winston, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Browning to page edges. Two-inch by two-inch chip to back panel of jacket. $2.00 price on jacket. Previous owner name and date of July, 1930..