Antarctic Command; [from the Steve Fossett collection]

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. [6.25x9.25in]; 272 pp., one double page map, 23 black and white images, appendix and glossary; Light green paper boards with black lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Pale green dust jacket with black lettering on front and spine, pictorial image of Antarctic landscape with Ronne image inside red illustration of Antarctic continent with radiating lines on front, author narrative on back. Steve Fossett (1944-2007) was a successful commodities trader and an adventurer that set world records in balloons, sailboats, gliders and unique powered aircraft. In the 1980's Fossett began developing a library collection of over 2,000 books on adventure and exploration. His collection included significant and authoritative accounts of aeronautics, polar, Asia, Australasia, circumnavigation's, mountaineering and others. In 2007, Fossett disappeared on a solo flight in a light aircraft over the eastern Sierra Mountains along the California and Nevada border. After an extensive search, the wreckage was found by hikers a year later along the rugged Mt. Ritter range in the Ansel Adams Wilderness in Madera County, about 10 miles east of Yosemite National Park.