War Below Zero.

First Edition. “This volume is No.29 of the first one hundred copies... autographed for members of The Explorers Club.” Signed by Balchen. This copy further inscribed “To His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor from his sincere friend Clannfhearguis of Stra-chur, 1945.” Seumas Clannfhearguis, chief of the Fergusson Clan was a member of The Explorers Club.Norwegian-born Balchen was the first man to fly over the South Pole as Byrd’s pilot. During WWII he trained Free Norwegian pilots in Canada, helped establish the USAAF’s base at Qaanaaq in Greenland, worked in support of the Scandinavian Resistance organizations and organized the bombing of the sole German base on Greenland. Post-War he commanded the USAF’s 10th Rescue Squadron in Alaska.

4to. 16 plates, maps to endpapers. Typical Wartime browning, but overall very good in the original blue cloth, lettered in black, sunned on the spine and a little mottled at the edges.