Search Results: Authors starting with K from Polar Books

Childs & Peterson, 1856. First Edition. Cloth. Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 2 Volumes, 464 and 467pages, illustrated with plates and engravings on steel and wood from sketches by the author. Frontispiece portraits, title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Original covers. Volume 1 loose pages and map, MISSING plate between pages 224 and 225, parts of pages ripped out mainly the introduction and preface, pages 224 to 231 ripped and sellotaped, loose map torn and repaired. Damp staining to loose frontispiece. Sold as reading copy only.Arctic Bibliography 8373: A good account of the voyage to Smith Sound, and of the winter on the north-west coast of Greenland, with extensive notes on the flora and fauna, the inuit and glaciers, the story of the final abandonment of the "Advance" and the party's return in small boats.No one had yet sailed beyond its northern portals. This is the first USA edition. Size: 2 Volumes. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5… Read More

Childs & Peterson, 1856. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 464 and 467 pages, illustrated with plates, 3 maps/charts (2 folding), engravings on steel and wood from sketches by the author. Frontispiece portraits, title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Brown end papers. Original dark brown cloth covers with gilt titling to spines. Previous owners bookplate Volume 1 front end paper, Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson title page both volumes. Additional title page Sheldon, Blakemore 1857, Volume 2. Some foxing mainly to page edges and tissue guards, more so to Volume 1. Covers worn, fraying, bumped. Account of the voyage to Smith Sound, and of the winter on the north-west coast of Greenland, with extensive notes on the flora and fauna. No one had yet sailed beyond its northern portals. Kane determined to do so. John P. Kennedy, secretary of the navy, gave enthusiastic personal support, and Henry Grinnell donated the brig Advance. Private subscription financed… Read More

Childs & Peterson, 1856. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Volume I tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Elisha Kent Kane engraved on steel by R. Whitechurch after a Mathew Brady daguerreotype; Volume II tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Henry Grinnell engraved on steel by F. Helpin after a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady. [i-ii] publisher's advertisement, [ii], 464; [ii], 467 [1] pp. 22 plates, 3 maps (2 folding), appendix. Illustrated with nearly 300 engravings on steel and wood from sketches by the author. Frontispiece portraits, title page vignettes, head and tailpieces. Half-title page vignettes by J. McGoffin after drawings by J. Hamilton. Brown end papers. Original covers with gilt titling to spines. Covers frayed, splitting, worn. Sporadic foxing, and damp staining, mainly to plate page edges and tissue guards. Volume 1 front hinge splitting, front end paper becoming detached, previous owners signatures on ffep, New York March 5th 1857 press… Read More

Marshall Brothers, London, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. No Date, presumed 1st UK Edition. Preface dated 1907: xiv, 224 pages, illustrated, colour and b/w maps, photos, drawings. Covers worn, new end papers, text block a bit nibbled at lower edge, spotting to pages, annotations of crossings, underlines from previous owner, mainly to the margins. A good reading copy. No Date: Presumed 1st. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Religion & Theology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3551. .

Heath Cranton Limited, London, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good. 1st Edition. 219 pages, illustrated 15 b/w photographs, including frontispiece portrait of author. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in photocopy dust jacket. Shelfware, bumped, some fading, staining to covers, pages age toned, contents clean.Describes the Canadian mariner and his life of fishing and seal culling in Newfoundland. The seal trade is controversial and abhorrent to most people today, but then such scruples barely existed.Captain Abram Kean, born in 1855, a man with great seamanship abilities and unquestionable courage. In this autobiography Captain Kean describes his early days and introduction to the seal fishery, sailing under auxiliary sail, a winter aboard the WOLF and her loss in 1896, his domestic woes, Bowring Brothers, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, cod fishery, the laws of herring fishery, sailing vessels employed in frozen waters, Newfoundland fishery, the dangers of sealing, S/S… Read More

Ward And Downey, London, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 1st printing of two works combined in one volume. 307 pages, original covers. Shelf wear, fraying, bumping, staining to covers, slight lean to spine, front end paper fragile and edges missing,hinge reinforced with tape, rear hinge splitting. Text block shaken but still quite sturdy, some over-opening, pages age toned. Contents clean. John Kane, an Irish sailor, travels under the false identity of a Muslim man under the banner of an Indian Muslim prince who intends to perform Hajj. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Religion & Theology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3510. .

Journal of Glaciology, 1969. Disbound. Reading Copy. J Glaciology, Vol 8, No 52, pp. 91-105, Illustrated, disbound & removed from original volume. Good Reading Copy. 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: 3066. .

Rufus C. Hartranft,, 1893. Cloth. Good. 1893 Edition. vii, 524 pp, illustrated, over 100 b/w illustrations, photographs, folding map, floral eps. Turquoise cloth covers with silver vignette of ship and gilt titling to front cover and gilt titling to spine. AB8485 This book contains the addition of a log of the second, or expedition of the "Kite", July 4th to sept. 22, 1892. A narrative of the relief party's activities at McCormick Bay and in the inland ice; of Mrs peary's winter; and the results of Peary's trans-Greenland march. Contemporary pencil gift inscription on ffep dated Christmas 1893. Shelfware, bumped, covers are soiled, titling on spine faded, fep split along front hinge, contents clean, age toning to pages. 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: 2382. .

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: pages 65-190, plates VII-XLII, BGLE on front cover. Original wrappers, from Colin Bertrams Collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 706. .

Literary Guild, 1930. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Literary Guild Edition: xi, 281 pages, illustrated with b/w drawings and striking plates from wood blocks by the author. Cream covers with green titling. Shelfware, spine grubby, contents clean. An account of the author's voyage to Greenland in 1929 with Arthur S. Allen, Jr., and another American in the boat Direction, and his sojourn for several months in the Godthaab region after the wreck of the vessel, with descriptions of West Greenlanders, their country, behaviour. Includes songs (verses) by Eskimos. Complete with all Rockwell Kent engravings. 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: 2384. .

Blandford Press, Dorset, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 176 pages, illustrated with b/w, colour plates, line drawings. Appears unread. South Pole Odyssey is based upon extracts from the diaries that Wilson kept on two historic Antarctic journeys - the Discovery expedition and the ultimately tragic expedition with Scott to the pole from the Terra Nova - a fascinating and personal account. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0713712066. ISBN/EAN: 9780713712063. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3410. . 9780713712063

Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1999. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition; Foreward by Beryl Bainbridge, 192pp, illustrated with over 140 illustrations, many by Herbert Ponting including some only recently released by the Royal Geographical Society. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial dustjacket. The dramatic disappearance of the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions in their race to reach the South Pole was seen by their contemporaries as creating heroes in a new mould. A few years later, during World War I, Scott's rival Shackleton also nearly met his death in the Antarctic, becoming in the process another hero. Both men were set on a pedestal, uncritically, because they tried and failed. As the years have gone by, Scott's reputation has been weighed in the balance with Shackleton's— and found wanting. Even the precious journals that Scott wrote on the journey are no longer in print, while photographs of the expedition have gathered dust in… Read More

The Venturer Press, UK, 1930. Edition Unstated. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Undated copy; Circa 1930s, 246pages, illustrated, G.S.Ronald (illustrator), b/w illustrations, maps on end papers. Black cloth covers with gilt titling. An account of his family and early life, why he went to sea, etc. His first experience of Sea Life, description of a North American Emigrant Ship, his first introduction to ice. Peter the Whaler was characteristic of many adventure stories which captured the imagination of Victorian youth. Nice illustrative etchings by Ronalds. Shelf wear, slight wrinkling to top of spine, end papers age toned, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1279. .