This is a SIGNED copy of "Little America - Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole" by Richard Evelyn Byrd. 1930 1st edition (stated); G.P. Putnam's Sons; New York. The book is signed in ink by Byrd on the half title page. There are 74 photographic illustrations from the expedition, as well as two fold-out maps at the back. Illustrated end papers. Frontispiece illustration of Byrd.
The following excerpt is taken from the book's dust jacket (though the jacket is not included with this listing): "'Little America' is the story of the Byrd Antarctic expedition as told for the first time by its leader. It is a narrative of action and at the same time a record of brilliant scientific achievement. It is, essentially, the story of men who brought their own civilization to 'a God-forsaken hunk of ice' and created on it one of the most extraordinary communities the world has ever seen."
The contents are as follows: Notes from a Journal; The Plan - The Preparation and the Problem; Through the Pack; We Establish a Base; The Battle to Unload; Discovery by Flight; Discovery of a New Land to the Eastward; Incident on the Rockefeller Mountains; Winter - Birth of a City; Civilization Does not Mater; More Plans and Preparations; The Start of the Southern Parties; The Base-Laying Flight; Flight to the South Pole; Eastward Beyond the Horizon; Death of a City; The Geological Sledge Trip. There is an Appendix and an Index at the back.