Search Results: Authors starting with M from Polar Books

Oxford University Press, 1943. cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition: xiii, 274pp, illustrated, b/w plates, map, pictorial endpapers by Thoreau MacDonald.. Brown cloth covers with titling to spine, no dustjacket, contents clean. Author's travel and years in the Northwest Territories,plus a history of the area, the prospectors, hunters, Eskimos, Indians. Account of a summer trip to the Yukon and Mackenzie district of Canada's western Arctic. 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: 2476. .

The Pentland Press, UK, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st Edition; xix; 314 pages, illustrated, b/w photos. Original covers in dust jacket, as new, appears unread. The remarkable story of an Antarctic expedition mounted by the Royal Society as the main British contribution to the International Geophysical Year,1957-8. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 1858217202. ISBN/EAN: 9781858217208. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1619. . 9781858217208

HMSO, 1908. Paper Wrappers. Very Good. 9pp. Paper wrappers as issued. Parliamentary Paper C 4197. 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: 1643. .

Constable, London, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: 218 pages, illustrated b/w maps and diagrams. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Miles V Mosley on front end paper. The techniques described are as relevant today as they were then. A good read for any mountaineer. Provenance: Miles Mosley (1946-1980), who worked for BAS as a GA at Stonington Island 1970-1973 and Base Commander at Halley Bay Antarctica 1977-1980. Mosley died in a tragic accident at Halley in 1980, when he was struck by an aircraft as it made an overpass of the landing area. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Mountaineering. ISBN: 0094582009. ISBN/EAN: 9780094582002. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3496. . 9780094582002

British Antarctic Survey, 1964. Card. Very Good. 1st Edition; 35pp plus appendix and 9 plates with description pages. Paper wrappers as issued. 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: 1639. .

Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 288 pages plus fold out table and map at end. Original covers, no dust jacket, spotting to prelims and page edges, contents clean. The author was an important official of the Sudan Government & served in the country from 1905 to 1934. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3560. .

Faber and Faber, London, 1938. First Edition. Hardback. Good Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 414 pages, folding map. Ex libri, University of London travelling libraries bookplate, usual library stamps and pockets. Shelf wear, hinges splitting, covers grubby, good reading copy. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Indigenous Cultures. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3688. .

Pelican (Penguin) Books, London, 1949. Revised Edition. Paperback. Reading Copy. 1949 revised and expanded edition. 352 pages. Covers grubby, repairs to spine, browned pages, reading copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Politics & Government. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3608. .

Edmound Cloutier, Queens printer and controller of stationary, 1952. Wrappers. Good. Scientific Paper: White paper wrappers, 13pp, illustrated, 4 photos, 1map. Old worm damage to page edges, not affecting text. Contents clean. Original publication, not a modern reprint. 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: 3002. .

The Minister of Resources and Development, 1952. Wrappers. Good. Scientific Paper: Brown card wrappers, 114pp, illustrated, 7 plates, 1 folding map. Small tear to bottom of spine cover. Contents clean. Original publication, not a modern reprint. 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: 3001. .

MacMillan, London, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol I: xiii, 391 pages, indexed, Vol II: ix, 407 pages, indexed. Illustrated photogravure plates (Henry Brokman illustrator) and text illustrations throughout plus 3 maps (2 foldout). Original Covers, shelf ware, ink Petersfield 15.5.72 to front end papers both volumes otherwise contents clean. Some minor age toning, mild foxing mainly to tissue guards of plates. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: History; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3275. . This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Cambridge U.P, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. 1927 Edition: x,261pp. 5 b/w plates, including frontispiece portrait, 13 b/w illustrations in text, 3 maps (1 folding). Original blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Biography. Account based on Markham's own diaries, an account of his early life, naval career and voyages. Shelfware, 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: 2443. .

George Philip and Son, 1891. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition, (undated but collation similar): xii, 324pp, illustrated, frontispiece, 9 plates, illustrations in text and 6 maps (4 coloured, 2 of which folding). Blue cloth covers ruled and titled in black. An account of the life and explorations on one of the world's great explorersIncludes an account of Franklin's first Arctic voyage in 1818 with Captain Buchan, in search of the North Pole; also his two Canadian overland expeditions and his final voyage in search of the North West Passage. Minor spotting to page edges and age toning, 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: 2431. .

London: Daldy, Isbister, & Co, 1878. . Fair. 3rd edition: xx, 440 pages. MISSING 2 of the 7 full page plates and the folding map and 1 of the 2 double-page colour plates of the flags and activities of the sledge parties. Library blue cloth binding with gilt titling and library numbers to spine. Ex. Libri, pages grubby, some split, some repaired, spotting, embossed library stamps. Reading copy. The author commanded the Alert during the British Arctic Expedition under Nares to the North Polar Sea, and wintered on Ellesmere Island. Markham led the two-sledge party that attempted to reach the North Pole in 1876, but was forced to turn back on account of his party suffering from scurvy. His account describes in detail the passage, wintering, sledge journeys, notes on the dogs, scurvy, frostbite, snow blindness, and other occurrences. Markham was appointed second-in-command of HMS Alert under Captain Nares. Despite suffering from scurvy and being poorly clothed, he led a sledge-party to reach the… Read More

John Murray, London, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xx, 370 pages, (2 publishers advertisements), illustrated, frontispiece plus 22 b/w illustrations, 7 maps, (1 folding). Ex libri, Cloth covers with heraldic device to front cover, gilt titling on spine, Elinor Robert's Memorial Trustees library bookplate on frontpastedown, no other markings. Shelf wear, covers faded. NMM Cat, Vol 2, Pt 1, entry 805: McClintock's first Arctic service was with Sir James Clark Ross on his second expedition in search of a North West Passage (1848-49). He accompanied Ommanery's 1850-51 espedition as first lieutenant of the Assistance. During this expedition he made a sledge journey of seven hundred and sixty miles in eighty days. He commanded the Intrepid in Belcher's 1852-54 expedition, the last of those officially sent out to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin. In 1857, at the request of Lady Franklin, McClintock sailed in the Fox to search for Franklin again.… Read More

Cambridge University Press, England, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xii, 539 pages, original silver- decorated blue cloth with photogravure frontispiece, 25 b/w plates, maps and text-illustrations. Damp damage with some staining, wrinkling to covers, frontispiece, plates and pages but overall in good readable condition. John Leng & Co., discrete book stamp embossed on top of some pages. Markham died in 1916 and the present work was completed from the manuscript by F H H Guillemard. The latter is responsible for the chapters on Amundsen's attempt on the South Pole. The bulk of the book is, however, Markham's work, including his concluding chapter on "Remaining Antarctic Work". Spence 755. Cambridge: UP, 1921. A comprehensive account of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions through Danish explorations of Greenland in 1908 and Scott's final journey to the South Pole in 1912. "Markham's active involvement in Polar exploration… Read More

Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle, 1873. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition: xvi, (1), 357pp, (2pp publishers advertisements), illustrated, 9 maps (8 folding, many coloured). Purple cloth covers with gilt titling. Arctic Bib.10949 - History of Arctic exploration region by region, from the early times to 1870; with concluding chapters on best route to the Pole, the scientific results of arctic exploration, and proceedings towards despatch of a British Arctic Expedition in 1875. Covers are faded and in very tatty, poor state, eps splitting at hinge, damp markings affecting first few pages and frontispiece map, previous owners signature on title page and owners library bookplate on front pastedown, small tear to first folding map, folding map loose opposite page 59, laid in. All maps, illustrations, charts present and original, occasional spotting, pages age toned but clean. A Very rare item. Good PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity… Read More

Fleming H. Revell Company, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 448pp, illustrated, portrait frontispiece plus 16 black and white photographs and 1 map, as called for. Green cloth covers with gilt titling. An Autobiography of John Hall Young in his dog mushing days as a parson travelling and living in Alaska. Completed by him just shortly before his sudden accidental death. Shelfware, sovers slightly grubby, hinges splitting, text block tight. Gift inscription on fep, contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Arctic; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2994. .

William Kimber & Co, 1955. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1st UK Edition; 218pp, (6pp publishers advertisments), illustrated, b/w photographic frontispiece plus 8 plate pages, charted eps. Excellent account of Antarctic research. Black cloth covers with gilt titling to spine, no dustjacket. Covers marked, shelfware. 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: 1577. .

The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. Cloth. Fair. 1st Edition thus: 298pp, Illustrated by frank E. Schoonover. Pictorial gilt-stamped, blue cloth. This period fiction evokes the wonder of the lives of "wild men," trappers, and Indians of the mid-to late nineteenth century, particularly in the upper midwestern lakes region. Stories, such as "The Judgment of Achille Breault", "The Vengeance of Black Fox", & eight others. Previously printed in The Country Gentlemen, The Red Book and The Popular Magazine. Damp staining to covers and page edges, rear ep split at hinge but overall contents clean. Previous owners bookplate verso front cover. 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: 2485. .