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London: Butterworths, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardbound. Quarto. xi + 360pp including indices. Illustrated throughout with thirty-six color plates, numerous black & white reproductions and two large folding maps at rear. Blue cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover. Ex-Library copy with faint library markings to foot of spine, perforated markings on title page and stamp to last page of text. Very Good+ with light soiling to edge of text block and a touch of wear to edges. L... more information

Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto. xxviii, 403pp. Notes, index. With four maps and fifty illustrations, nearly all of which are color reproductions of watercolours from the pages of Back's journal. Cloth. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket, minor crease to front flap. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1875. First Edition. Octavo. xii, 292pp. Maps. Original blue cloth, covers stamped in blind, backstrip gilt. Previous owner's name in pencil; a bright, Very Good+ copy. // With an essay by DR. Robert Brown titled "On the Physical Structure of Greenland"; followed by "On the Best Means of Reaching the Pole (Baron von Wrangell); "On the Discoveries of Dr. Kane" (Dr. Rink); "The Arctic Current Around Greenland" (Admiral C. Irminger)... more information

Duluth, MN: Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1989. Hardcover. First Printing. 227pp. Illustrations. Cloth, Very Good+ in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

London: Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1921. Paperback. Quarto. viii + 46pp including appendix. Stiff blue printed wrappers. Near Fine with a touch of sunning and light creasing to edges. Includes Auroral Observations at Cape Evans, 1911-12 and Auroral Observations at Cape Adare, 1911. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

Copenhague: De Imprimerie de Thiele, 1858. Pamphlet. Octavo. 60pp, 8, 12pp. two plates at the end of the pamphlet, with seventeen illustrations found on p38-40, as well as a few other illustrations within the text. Text in Danish. Original printed wrappers; front cover detached, and the text block separated before the maps at the end. A complete, if worn, copy. Extrait des Memoires et de la Revue de la Societe Royale des Antiquaires du Nord.' See SABIN 67473. Image or additional images available upon ... more information

Cambridge, New York, et al: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hardcover. First Printing. Quarto. [vi], 730pp. Bibliography, index. More than fifty illustrations from photographs, maps and illustrations. Pictorial glossy paper covered boards, showing a bit of overall light wear; a Very Good+ copy Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

New York: Random House, 1952. Hardcover. Later Printing. Octavo. 182 pp. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Includes index. Blue cloth over boards with pictorial end papers. Very Good+, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. Reprint. Quarto. 211pp. Illustrated with photographs by Frank Hurley, the Endurance's photographer. Black cloth over black paper-covered boards. A Fine copy in dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. Reprint. Quarto. 211pp. Illustrated with photographs by Frank Hurley, the Endurance's photographer. Black cloth over black paper-covered boards. A Fine copy in dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Hardcover. First American printing. Octavo. xiii, 269pp. Sources and references, bibliography, index. Maps, illustrations. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards; a Near Fine copy in a like dust jacket that has a few tiny tears to the lower corners. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1925. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo. viii + 96pp. Illustrated with numerous black & white photo reproductions. Blue paper wraps with titles printed in blue on spine and front cover. 'The Mountaineers' embossed throughout, with light wear and a touch of sunning to wraps; Near Fine condition. Includes 'The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1924' by F. G. Binney, 'The Royal Research Ship "Discovery"', 'Historic Instruments... more information

Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center, Research Studies Institute, Air University, 1955. Pamphlet. Quarto. viii, 90pp. Wrappers, stapled; small neat previous owner's signature on the front wrapper, edges fading a bit; a Very Good+ copy. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1897. Hardcover. Octavo. Vol. I: 527pp. Vol. II: 507pp. Index. Text in German. Both volumes are illustrated with black & white and color plates, includes two fold out maps. Gray cloth over boards with picture pasted to front boards and green lettering to spine and front board, both volumes Very Good with soiling to boards, bumping to corners, tanning of spines and edges of pages, Vol. I has a tear along hinge of spine Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

Stanford, California: Stanford Research Institute, 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Two volumes. Quarto. Softbound. ii, 49 leaves (printed rectos only); iii, 171 leaves (nearly all printed on the rectos only). Printed wrappers, the second volume comb-bound. Very Good. // Part I contains a description of the equipment, technique, and procedures, with a very brief summary of some of the statistics and notes on special observations. Part II is the tabulation of the data which were obtained by plotting the reco... more information

New York: The Polar Publishing Co., 1911. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto. xx + 604pp. Index. Frontisportrait of the author and more than fifty illustrations throughout from steel-engravings and half-tone photographs. Original brown cloth with pictorial vignette printed in black and white; gilt stamped titles. Light soiling to page edges, minor edgewear; new endsheets. A Very Good+ copy. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 3389. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Hardcover. First Greenwood Reprint. Two volumes; large quartos. 740, II, 18, 8pp; xii, 120, cxliv, lxiv [pp]. Illustrated throughout, and with frontispieces in each volume, and a folding map. Brown cloth, gilt spines; a Near Fine set. // A suitable facsimile reprint of this important work, with Braithwaite's 'supplement' (and Ross's answer) in volume one Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Hardcover. Reprint . 12mo. xx + 274 pp. With an introduction by Dr. Edward William Nelson. Includes illustrations, map, appendix, and bibliography. Light green cloth over boards. Very Good+ with light soiling and tear to bottom edge of first few pages, not effecting text, in a Very Good+dust jacket with one very short closed tear at bottom of front panel and one snag in middle of rear panel.// Signed by the author on the title page. Image or additional images availab... more information

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1989. Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 207 pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Image or additional images available upon request ... more information

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons and Smith, Elder & Co, 1907. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 410; viii, 386pp. Illustrations, folding maps and charts. Color frontispiece in each volume. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, illustration set into the front cover of each volume; top edges gilt, the others untrimmed. A small nick from the spine of volume two, a bit of light foxing scattered throughout; altogether a bright, Very Good+ set Image or additional images available upon request ... more information