North Pole

1917 hardcover as pictured. A scholarly examination of the claims of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary to have reached the north pole. This is an ex-library book with typical markings. Stamped "Compliments of the Author" and "Thomas F. Hall, 220 Grain Exchange, Omaha, Nebr." on FFEP. Book jacket synopsis is pasted inside front cover. Binding is firm. Red cloth boards with gold stamping are rubbed and soiled with some edge wear. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Text is lightly tanned but generally clean... Read more about this item

Phila: Childs & Peterson. GOOD books. VG internally. Tight binding. No loose pages.. 1857. early editions. Hardcover. GOOD books. VG inside. Worn covers. Brown cloth. Faded gilt spine lettering. Sailing ship vignette stamped on all covers. . Each vol with a frontis and an additional engraved tp. Vol 1 also with a fold out map & a single page map, plus 11 tissue guarded plates. Vol 2 with a fold out chart of Baffin bay isothermal lines and 7 plates. All tips bumped & worn to underlying board.... Read more about this item

London: Book Club Associates. 1977. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour photographs and drawings. 172 pages. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

New York: Doubleday & Co. 1968. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Laminated boards - no dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Maps to endpapers. 355 pages. A collection of excerpts and writings about the Arctic and Antarctic, including Scott's account of his tragic attempt to reach the South Pole. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Little, Brown and Company, London, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary, introduction by author, acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with eight pages of colour photography. It clean page 126 and 127. Gray coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with blue and red colour titles to the front panel and white and blue colour titles to the backstrip. The story of the... Read more about this item

Hartford: Bliss. VG book. Bliss logo blind stamped on rear board. Very nice book.. 1872 (1868cp).. Later 1 vol ed. Hardcover. VG book. Brown cloth. AEG. Gilt cover lettering, gilt vignette of small ship among icebergs. Tight. Very clean, in & out. . TP dated 1871, with 1868 cp date and the engraved tp dated 1872. This edition with all 244 illustrations of the original 1856 2 vol edition. PLUS: This, and only this, edition lists all these illustrations. The 1st edition did not. The numbering and... Read more about this item

London: The Travel Book Club. 1964. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Several black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

Oslo: Fram Museum, 2021. 711; 111 pp. Square Quarto. 2 volumes bound in full black leather. Silver gilt title on front board and spine of both volumes. Both housed in a black cloth slip case with silver gilt decoration on the front panel. Matching black endpapers. 850 photographs and illustrations. The separate map volume contains 70 historic maps and charts. The set is magnificent to say the least and weighs in at 14 pounds (6.5 kgs) As new in orginal shrink wrap. Limited edition of 200 copies.... Read more about this item