Search Results: Authors starting with W from Polar Books

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1831. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Octavo 8vo Edition; Two volumes, Vol I [iv]-xxvi, [1, directions to the binder], 472pp; Vol II iv, 452pp. Three engraved maps, two of which are folding, and twenty-three engraved plates, many not in place as in directions to binder but all complete, also two copies of one of the plates. Contemporary rebound, cloth, half calf, Each volume with red and black spine labels. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Beechey’s expedition on board the H.M.S. Blossom formed part of a double-pronged assault on the western approaches to the Arctic. Sent by way of Bering’s Strait to explore the northern coast eastward, Beechey was to eventually link up with Franklin’s second expedition, working westward from the Mackenzie River. The two parties came within several hundred miles of each other, one of Beechey’s vessels managing to penetrate as far as Cape Barrow, while Franklin turned back… Read More

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1831. Early Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Dust Jacket. The 1st Admiralty Edition in quarto; Two volumes, Vol I, fep, folding map, title page, vii-xxi, [1, directions to the binder], 392pp; illustrated, 14 plates, 3 charts, (2 folding). MISSING 5 PLATES AND PAGES v-vi, 329-336), Up to page viii, detached as is pages 387 to 392. Vol II (2), errata slip, vi-vii, directions to binder pages 393-742 (2 publishers advertisements), illustrated 7 plates. (MISSING 1 plate). Half bound marbled boards. Beechey’s expedition on board the H.M.S. Blossom formed part of a double-pronged assault on the western approaches to the Arctic. Sent by way of Bering’s Strait to explore the northern coast eastward, Beechey was to eventually link up with Franklin’s second expedition, working westward from the Mackenzie River. The two parties came within several hundred miles of each other, one of Beechey’s vessels managing to penetrate as far as Cape Barrow, while… Read More

E.P.Dutton and Company, 1907. Cloth. Good. 1st US Edition; xii, 294pp, illustrated, 67 plates, 6 maps. Woodcuts and illustrations by Edward Whymper. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling and vignette of polar bear on front cover and gilt titling to spine. An historical, detailed survey of travel and exploration to North Pole and Arctic Regions. Book slightly bowed. Covers grubby,hinges loosening,bumped, top and bottom of spine softening, shelfware, eps browned. Age toning. Previous owners signature in pencil Zara A Brandram, 1942 on fep. (Possibly Lady Kathleen Brandram who died on October 2 aged 94, was the former Princess Katherine of Greece and the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria?). 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: 2137. .

The Mosaic Press, Canada, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 151 pages, illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Poems, journal entries, maps illustrating Scott's failed attempt to reach the South Pole. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0889623554. ISBN/EAN: 9780889623552. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 665. . 9780889623552

Longman Ree's & Co, London, 1858. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. No date, circa 1858 Edition: Map mounted in section on linen 2 inches to the mile (10 furlongs) approx. English miles 691 = 1 degree. Hand coloured with Counties and market towns, population market days , fairs, court sessions etc., printed and pasted to inside of front cover. 400x650mm approx flat. 90x145mm approx folded in original embossed covers. Some age toning but overall in very good condition. Discrete booksellers stamp Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Geography & Maps; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3677. .

Lutterworth Press, London, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 1st Edition; 194 pages, illustrated with b/w photos and drawings in text in pictorial clipped dust jacket. Shelf ware. Booksellers label on verso front cover, dust jacket tatty with old sellotaped repairs. Contents clean. A personal account of two years spent in British Antarctica, in the second year they were joined by an American expedition and later combined to complete an extensive survey of the East Coast of the Graham Land peninsula, includes detail of how the expedition actually lived in Antarctica, how they organized their base, trained their dog teams and carried out their work. This is a fascinating account of Kevin Walton's trek to Antarctica in the late 1940s. It is written in such a way as to enable his readers in their imaginations to share in his experiences. He gives a vivid and authentic impression of what it really feels like to be a member of a polar expedition - to be wintering in a base hut or to be… Read More

The Knell Press, UK, 1955. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Signed by Author. New Edition 1982, (originally published 1955 by Lutterworth Press). SIGNED by author on title page, also Tony Baker, (Ex BAS Halley Bay, carpenter). Tony Baker's copy his name and address on front end paper. 194 pages, illustrated, 51 b/w photos, 6 line illustrations. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Old Sellotape markings where dust jacket had previously been stuck to book, contents clean. A personal account of two years spent in British Antarctica, in the second year they were joined by an American expedition and later combined to complete an extensive survey of the East Coast of the Graham Land peninsula, includes detail of how the expedition actually lived in Antarctica, how they organised their base, trained their dog teams and carried out their work. This is a fascinating account of Kevin Walton's trek to Antarctica in the late 1940s. It is written in such a… Read More

Images Publishing (Malvern), England, 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1st Edition; Hardcover. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales,190 pages, beautifully illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and diagrams throughout. Original blue cloth gilt with silver titling to spine in pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Appears unread, contents clean. The removal of dogs from the Antarctic followed an amendment to the Antarctic Treaty in 1991. Environmentalists concerned that the distemper-like virus which had affected the seal population in the North Sea may be linked to dogs, pressed for this change. (Subsequently the Antarctic dogs were proven to be distemper free). The whole story: from collecting the dogs and shipping them down from Greenland and Labrador; through developing aspects of training, feeding, breeding and travel; to the advent of motorised vehicles, the phasing out of dogs and the final journey that took them to new homes in Canada. The book includes… Read More

John Murray, London, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xxii, 361, 1 page of publishers adverts, illustrated throughout b/w photos, colour folding map has a tiny repaired closed tear with archival quality tape. Sketch Map listed as at page 144 is in fact at page 166. Original covers, no dust jacket. Spotting to end papers and page edges, discolouration caused by newspaper cutting (Daily Mail March 2nd 1970 about the race war threatening the new Biafra laid in) between pages 20 and 21, contents clean. Shelf wear, slight sunning to spine ut overall a very nice copy. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3681. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

FeedARead Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Paperback Edition; 307pages. Fiction based in Antarctic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Fiction. ISBN/EAN: 9781784072766. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3122. . 9781784072766

Antarctic Memories Publishing, Canada, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. 1st Paperback Edition; 164 pages, illustrated, colour and b/w photos, maps. The recollections by the author of life in Antarctica working for the British Antarctic Survey in the 1960s when he signed up as a meteorologist. " Living in the Antarctic in the 1960's meant coal stoves, melting snow for bath water, and running husky dogs. Michael spent two years on the icy continent, one year at Deception Island and one year at Adelaide Island. Ships relieved the isolated bases every eight months. A return in 2005 showed an increase in fur seals and whales, but huskies were no longer allowed to be in the Antarctic." Appears unread. First softcover edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Meteorology; Exploration. ISBN: 9780973850406. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3662. .

William Hodge and Company, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1952 Edition: Translated from Johan Skalberg's Danish versin Vitus Berings Eventyrlige opdagerfaerd 1733-1743 by M.A. Michael: 236 pages, illustrated, frontispiece with 7 maps, some folding, 2 plates Map end papers. The manuscript of this book was lost for nearly two hundred years. It is an account by Bering's second-in- command of the famous voyage of discovery that established the true position of America in relation to Asia and brought back the first authentic account of the natives of the Aleutian islands. The frontis is the only known portrait of Vitus Bering. Ex library with remants of library bookolate on blank prelim, stamp to front end paper, end paper maps are missing pieces where a dustjacket was previously removed. Contents clean, no dust jacket. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item… Read More

David & Charles, 1970. Facsimile Edition. Cloth. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A facsimile of the second edition of 1827 with introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs. x, iv, 324pp, illustrated, folding maps & charts. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling in unclipped dust jacket. Weddell, sailing in the "Jane" and the "Beaufoy", was the first to explore as far south as 74 degrees 15 minutes into what is now the "Weddell Sea". Appears unread First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. 324 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; ISBN: 0715347837. ISBN/EAN: 9780715347836. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 516. . 9780715347836

Heinemann, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: xiv, 240pp, illustrated, 14 b/w photographs, map end papers. Blue cloth covers with white titling in price clipped dustjacket. From the dj flap "In this exciting book the author has recaptured all the drama and heartbreak of Robert E. Peary's and Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's battle to be the first man to claim the Arctic Pole. His account - based largely on personal diaries, contemporary accounts and interviews with survivors - is a remarkable tribute to two extraordinary men." Dustjacket edge worn, nibbled. Slight age toning to pages, 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: 2966. .

Cassell and Company, 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 86pp, illustrated, 57 b/w photographs (taken by the author), 4 maps. Blue cloth covers with white titling to spine, no dustjacket. The author describes a holiday in Norway where the remote peaks of the Lyngen Fjord and Lofoten islands were conquered. They also went to Vaagekallentind, to the Rafsund peaks and then to Jaegevarre. Shelfware, covers slightly grubby, 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: 2971. .

The Macmillan Company, 1933. First English Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor. 1st US Edition, (The Czech original, "Po Stopach Poldrnich Pokladu" was published in 1930): 352pp. Yellow cloth covers with black titling in dustjacket. Jan Welzl (1868–1948), travelled through Northern Canada and the polar regions, worked as a gold prospector, and became an Eskimo chief. Shelfware, dustjacket very tatty, pieces missing. Covers grubby, spine spotted, end papers spotted. Signature on fep. Contents clean. Good This is the first USA edition. 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: 2972. .

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: BGLE on front cover,pages 403-434,plate V, damp staining and wrinkling to bottom of pages, contents clean. BGLE on front cover, from Colin Bertrams collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biology; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3487. .

Jonathan Cape, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Paperback Edition; xvii, 354 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs, maps. Biography of one of the youngest members of Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic, author of the classic 'The Worst Journey in the World'. First softcover edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; ISBN/EAN: 9780099437536. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3357. . 9780099437536

Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Penguin Paperback Edition: 301 pages, [2 pages publishers adverts), 12 b/w photos, pages age tanned. [Neate W52: Biography of an outstanding British mountaineer who partnered Joe Brown in the resurgence of British rock-climbing in the 1950s. Later he made many fine climbs in the Alps, Himalaya and South America]. First softcover edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: ; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3462. .

Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Presumed 1st Edition: 189pp, illutstrated, 7 illustrations including a map of Nansen's voyages. Blue cloth covers with white titling. Shelfware, titling faded, age toning to pages. School library bookplate to front pastedown, library number to spine and fep, no other markings. Contents clean. Good Presumed 1st Edition. Ex Libris with usual stamps and markings. 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: 2975. .