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FLIGHT TO THE NORTH POLE 24 AUGUST 1949 Francis Farquhar and Garfield Merner 1950 1st ed Softcover Fine
By Farquhar, Francis P. and Garfield Merner
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San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1950, 1st edition. 15 pp. Blue card covered softcover decorated in red, black and blue. Pamphlet is a Fine copy.

This charming Grabhorn Press piece recounts the polar aerial adventure of Farquhar, noted California historian, mountaineer and Bohemian Club member, and Garfield Merner, founder of the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, California. The black letter excerpts from Hakluyt's 1582 Divers Voyages and Martin Frobisher (Perils of the Pole) in 1578 serve as preface and afterword.

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