'Birdie' Bowers Of the Antarctic

John Murray, London, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition; Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, xxxiii, 270 pages, 13 plates including frontispiece, (1 double-page reproduced from South Polar Times) 2 maps (1 folding) Original covers in RARE price clipped pictorial dust jacket. Gift Ink inscription on front end paper dated 1938.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray. Fair with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 0719501245 . Front free endpaper torn out, with damage to front hinge. Heavy foxing to half-title page. Moderate rubbing and dust stains to boards and spine. ; First printing. xxiii, [1], 270 pages + frontispiece + 12 plates + 1 in-text map + 1 folding… Read more about this item

JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, 1938 HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 10s. 6d net, SEVERAL FULL PAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES & COMPLETE WITH THE TWO MAPS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES 23 + 270 PAGES + PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE. SOME LOSS TO FRONT EDGE OF JACKET WITH A FEW VERY MINOR CHIPS TO EDGES OF… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1944. Early Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1944 Third printing: Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, xxxiii, 266 pages, 13 plates, (1 double-page reproduced from South Polar Times), 1 folding map, 1 map in text. Blue cloth covers with spine label in price clipped pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to page edges, contents clean, Dust jacket… Read more about this item

London: John Murray. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Slight bumping to lower corners of boards. Some spots of foxing to page edges. ; Fourth printing. xxiii, [1], 270 pages + frontispiece + 12 plates + 1 in-text map + 1 folding map + [2] pages advertisements. Blue cloth covers with… Read more about this item

London: John Murray. Good in Good dust jacket. (1951). Hardcover. Front free endpaper torn out. Gutter split at front hinge. 3/8" missing at head of dustjacket spine. A couple of 3/8" chips to front panel of dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1947 reprint. xxiii, [1], 270 pages + frontispiece + 12 plates + 1… Read more about this item

London: John Murray. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1951). Hardcover. Owner's signature. Spine faded. Some fading to margins of boards. Spotting to top page edges. Adhesive tape repairs to dust wrapper. Fading to margins of dust wrapper. 2" tear along dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xxiii, [1], 270 pages + frontis… Read more about this item

John Murray , 1938. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/Good. With and Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Grey top pages edges. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Reprint, 2nd edition 1938. Publication of 270 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and… Read more about this item

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1938. Hardcover. Good. 1938. Reprint. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Minor cracking to front hinge and missing front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable… Read more about this item

John Murray. Good. Hardcover. 1951. xxiii +270pp. b/w & colour illus. maps. Blue boards - light fadi ng to spine, spine tips bumped, foxed page edges. dj shelf wea r with losses - protected with non adhesive cover. Minor stains to firm contents, school award sticker on front pastedown. .

London: John Murray, 1938. Stated first edition. Hardcover. VG. No jacket. Previous owner's name (M. Baxter, London, Dec. 1938) on front free endpaper. Half title page browned.. 270 pages with index plus two pages of ads. A biography of Lt. Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers (1883-1912), who was among the men who died with Robert Falcon Scott's polar party… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. 270 pages with index plus two pages of ads. Publisher's blue boards with cream paper label lettered in gilt on spine. With 3 coloured illustrations, 12 half-tones and 2 Maps (all present). Blue top-edge. Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. … Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Scuffed faux leather maroon boards, edge and corner wear. Faded appended title label on sunned spine. Cut edges tanned, odd speckles. Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Endpapers tanned, foxed, rebound. Age faded text block, scattered miniscule 'cuts'… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1947 8vo. original blue cloth with gilt spine label (a trifle rubbed, occ. faint spotting, minor marginal tear to one leaf (manufacturing imperfection), else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xxiv (last blank), 270, [2 (pubs. advt., last blank)], with 13 illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

London: John Murray. Good. 25 cm. Hardcover. 1944. 266 pages. Text edge lightly foxed.<br> .

London: John Murray. Very Good. 25 cm. Hardcover. 1938. 270 pages. Ex-library<br> .

John Murray, 1938. Second Impression. Hardcover. Good. Hardback, lacks dustwrapper, slight rubbing to boards and slight darkening to spine, titles still distinct. Gift inscription to free front end paper, there are some light pencil annotations to the rear of the frontespiece and some very light pencil markings to corresponding parts of the text. Overall a clean copy… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1944. Reprint . Cloth Bound Boards. Good/No Jacket. 1944 Reprint. Size octavo, 266 pages including index. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles on cream panel to the spine, no dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and edges rubbed, hinges a bit loose, a few spots to first and last few pages else contents clean.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1938. Pages clean and bright, small previous owner inscription on front endpaper, light foxing on endpapers, boards and binding tidy. Dust jacket in poor condition - chipping to edges, most of the front cover is present except for a 2cm tear at the top right corner; 10cm x 5cm of bottom left corner of rear jacket missing..… Read more about this item