Flying the Arctic
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbokcer Press, 1928. Octavo, dark-red hardback, spine and cover embossed with gilt lettering, xv, 336 pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, 15 double-sided black-and-white plates, one appendix included. Spine ends bumped, lower corner of back cover bumped, pale mark on top edge of text block, binding split between frontispiece and title page but holding, title page coming away from spine but holding, foxing on first few leaves, dust-jacket is worn and torn at spine and top and tail edges, dust-jacket spine faded with loss of text; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. An autobiography by pioneer polar aviator Captain George H. Wilkins covering the flights he and his crew took over Point Barrow, Alaska, the North Pole, Spitsbergen and the Arctic. Wilkins vividly details the many events, some disastrous and some exhilarating, that unfolded during these expeditions in the arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Item #4711
Inscribed on leaf iii with: "J. H. Kays Bengalla MBrook" [Musselbrook, NSW].
Price (AUD): $200.00