Search Results: Authors starting with G from Polar Books

Harry Hayes, 1976. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 2nd Revised Edition (1st edition published privately 1974): 267pp, 2pp publishers advertisements, illustrated, b/w photographs, maps. Blue cloth covers with silver titling in illustrated unclipped dustjacket. Study of the postal history of the territory in 4 parts - Part 1: Before the Klondike Gold Rush, Part 2 The Klondike Gold Rush Period, Part 3 The 20th Century followed by The Catalogue conatining Code of types of pastmarks and list of Post offices and Postmarks, (many illustrated). Good reference material for the postal historian. Shelfware, dustjacket slightly grubby, contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Canada; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2992. .

C. Hurst & Company, 1970. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1st UK Edition, English Translation; Vol I; xiii, 350pp, illustrated, 45 b/w plates, maps, line drawings. Cream cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial illustrated dustjackets. small tear and crease to dustjacket rear Vol I. Very Good/Very Good. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2119. .

History Book Club, Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: 331 pages, illustrated b/w photos, drawings. Original covers in unclipped dust-jacket. From Cape to Cairo The exploration and exploitation of the African Continent. Tells the story of the dream of a vast African Empire ruled by Britain, how it came to be a reality and how it came to an end. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3547. .

Heinemann, 1968. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; xv, 190pp, (1 advertisement), illustrated, 20 b/w photographs, 3 maps, line drawings by the author. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dustjacket. A biography of the eighteenth-century Norwegian explorer who searched for descendents of the tenth-century Greenland settlers, written for children by the author of the "Family from One End Street" stories. Shelfware, dustjacket chipped. Very Good/Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2120. .

Galloway & Porter, Cambridge, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: SIGNED COPY. Signed by the Author on title page, illustrated, 15 b/w drawings with description. A charming collection of illustrations of the city of Cambridge. Some minor spotting to end papers and page edges but overall a very nice copy. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Architecture; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3543. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 1st UK Edition; With contributions by Gordon De Q, Robin, E.F. Roots, Valter Schytt and Brian Walford and a foreword by J.M. Wordie. Translated from the Norwegian by E.M. Huggard. 304 pages, 31 b/w photographs,10 maps. Original hardcover in photocopied dust jacket. Ex Libris, library stamps and pocket on verso front cover, withdrawn stamps on end papers, library loan bookplate poorly removed from front end paper, residue sellotape marks on covers. Contents clean. An official account of the first ever large-scale International Expedition to the Antarctic 1949-1952, led by Captain John Giaever. It tells the story of him and his fourteen companions working for two years at the base at Maudheim. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1517. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st UK Edition; With contributions by Gordon De Q, Robin, E.F. Roots, Valter Schytt and Brian Walford and a foreword by J.M. Wordie. Translated from the Norwegian by E.M. Huggard. 304 pages, illustrated 31 b/w photographs, 10 maps. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Previous owners pencil signature (E J McGrath) on half title, plain front end paper removed. Contents clean. An official account of the first ever large-scale International Expedition to the Antarctic 1949-1952, led by Captain John Giaever. It tells the story of him and his fourteen companions working for two years at the base at Maudheim. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1518. .

Chatto & Windus, London, 1954. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. UK Review Copy; With contributions by Gordon De Q, Robin, E.F. Roots, Valter Schytt and Brian Walford and a foreword by J.M. Wordie. Translated from the Norwegian by E.M. Huggard. 304 pages,no photographs, 10 maps and diagrams. Original paper wrappers. Contents clean. An official account of the first ever large-scale International Expedition to the Antarctic 1949-1952, led by Captain John Giaever. It tells the story of him and his fourteen companions working for two years at the base at Maudheim, and includes contributions from four members of the team, Gordon de Q. Robin, E.F. Roots, Valter Schytt and Brian Walford. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3406. .

William Morrow & Co, New York, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition 171 pages. Yellow hardcover with penguin and polar explorer in stare-off. Publishers imprint blindstamped at bottom of front cover. Illustrated, b/w illustrations. Bruton & Bruton (illustrator). Pictorial end papers. Gift inscription dated 1936 on front end paper, all illustrations present, 1 plate loose, 1 plate re-glued with glue residue but overall in good condition. Satire on Famous Explorers and their travel plans. This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 401. .

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.,, London, 1933. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1933 reprint of this classic economy textbook. 158 pages. Previous owners signature to verso front cover, spine sunned, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Economics; Politics & Government. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3491. .

F.H. Revell Company, London, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 252 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps. Original covers, no dust jacket. Presumed 1st Edition: Front hinge split, text block shaken but still fairly solid, all complete. Subjects: Missionaries, Sudan description, travel, social life and customs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3565. .

George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/Fair. 1st Edition; Translated by Karin Elliott, 149pages, 3pages publishers advertisements, illustrated, end paper maps, frontispiece plus 46 b/w photographs. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Biography of this Danish physician who went "to live with an isolated group of Polar Eskimos in Thule, Greenland, the northernmost human settlement in the world." Shelfware, dust jacket tatty, pieces missing, covers sunned where dust jacket missing, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2123. .

Troubader Press, 1975. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition; Introduction by Karl Kortum. 120pp, illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. SIGNED by author on fep. Cream cloth covers with blind stamped depiction of a piece of scrimshaw on the front cover and gilt titling to spine in pictorial dustjacket. "The nautical ivory worker and his art of scrimshaw, historical and contemporary". Contents: The old and new scrimshaw. An endangered species and an endangered art form. A photographic portfolio of scrimshaw including whalers, ship portraits, crafted artifacts, fantasy and imagery, pirates, tools and techniques, acknowledgements, bibliography, Index. Shelfware, contents clean. Very Good/Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; ISBN: 0912300531. ISBN/EAN: 9780912300535. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2129. . 9780912300535

Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1947. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition; xvi, (1), 275pp, illustrated by Bob Hines. Map eps, line drawings in text. Blue cloth covers with dark blue titling. the true and realistic account of one man's adventures and experiences in the bleak country above the Arctic Circle. Charles Gilham's knowledge of the Far North is based on years of intimate acquaintance with both the land and its people. Covers Grubby, age toning of pages, contents clean. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2125. .

Gall and Inglis, London, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Undated, presumed 1895 Edition; No date but gift inscription on front end paper dated May 25th 95 so presuming circa 1895, vi, 376 pages, illustrated b/w line drawings. Original covers,contents clean, shelf wear. From the preface:- "It has been my purpose to make the following tale, not only a tale, but a complete history of Arctic adventure and discovery condensed into a small space. It has seemed to me that the young ought to know the eventful story of the perils, the sufferings, and the triumphs of their countrymem, and of the brave men of other nations, in those icy regions during the course of three centuries." Ross, Parry, Victory's crew, North-West passage, Dr. Kane, Baffin's Bay... Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2126. .

Putnam, 1945. Cloth. Very Good. Undated Edition, presumed 1st; 329pp, illustrated, 23 b/w photographs, map eps, pages uncut. Brown cloth covers with blue titling to front cover and spine, no dustjacket. Signed "Sincerely Philip H Godsell Dec 25/38" on fep. Contemporary account of the building of the Alaska Highway in the 2WW, with some autobiography. Contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2133. .

Princeton University Press, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 1st paperback Edition; xxv, 244pp, illustrated b/w photographs. An account of the 1899 expedition that including many of the leading scientists, biologists, and illustrators of the day, among them John Burroughs, G.K. Gilbert, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell, C. Hart Merriam, Louis Aggasiz Fuertes, and Edward S. Curtis. Many photos, notes, sources, scientific results, appendix of the members, index. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; ISBN: 0691005915. ISBN/EAN: 9780691005911. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 822. . 9780691005911

Octagon Books Inc, 1968. Cloth. Very Good. Handsome Octagon reprint, 1968: Vol 1: The Log Books and Official Reports of the First & Second Expeditions 1725-1730 and 1733-1742 with a chart of the second voyage by Ellsworth P. Bertholf. x, 371pp.15 illustrations, 1 large folding chart. Vol II: Steller's Journal of the Sea Voyage from Kamchatka to America and Return on the Second Expedition 1741-1742. translated and in part by Leonhard Stejneger. xi, 290pp, 1 errata page, illustrated, 30 b/w illustrations, maps, 2 plates. Red cloth covers with gilt titling. Some minor wrinkling to some page edges, contents clean. Overall Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2370. .

American Geographical Society, 1930. Card. Very Good. 1st Edition; Vol 1: The Log Books and Official Reports of the First & Second Expeditions 1725-1730 and 1733-1742. x, 371pp.15 illustrations, 1 large folding chart. Grey cloth covers with gilt titling on black labels front and spine. Contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1857. .

The Priory Press Limited, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 1st Edition; Foreword by Lord Mountevans; x, 74 pages, illustrated with colour and b/w illustrations. Blue cloth covers in price clipped pictorial dustjacket. Shelfwear, dust jacket has closed taped tears.Contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1960s; ISBN: 0850780020. ISBN/EAN: 9780850780024. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1531. . 9780850780024 This book weigh more than a kilo so may involve extra shipping to aome countries.