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Lot 129
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
BYRD, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957). Little America. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
8vo. Photogravure frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations. Original half parchment (slightly soiled, joints slightly rubbed). Provenance: Bowman Gray (1874-1935), President and Chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (signature, inscription); Gordon Gray (1909-1982), Government official in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations (signature, inscription).
LIMITED EDITION, number 869 of 1000 copies of the "Author's Autograph Edition" SIGNED BY BYRD and the publisher. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY BYRD: "All good wishes to Bowman Gray and Gordon Gray. R. E. Byrd March 14, 1931."