Search Results: Titles starting with D from Polar Books

C. Hurst & Co, 1974. Facsimile Edition. Cloth. Very Good. English Text: C. Hurst & Company Facsimile Edition of the original 1877 Edtion: 468pp., fold-out map, illustrated. Dark orange cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Greenland pictured and described by Greenlander's themselves in a journal published in the Eskimo language. Covers have very slight shelfware, contents clean, book appears unread. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Arctic; History. ISBN: 0903983249. ISBN/EAN: 9780903983242. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2718. . 9780903983242

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; 256 pages, illustrated, 3 pages b/w photos, map end papers. Original cloth covers in original unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket spotted, tatty, covers clean, minor spotting to end papers and page edges, contents clean. The life story of Matthew Henson who accompanied Peary. This book was written in close collaboration with Henson himself. The photographs include 4 taken by Henson in 1909 near the North Pole. 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: 2740. .

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 1st UK Edition; 256 pages, illustrated, 3 pages b/w photos, map end papers. Original cloth covers, in photocopied dust jacket. Shelf wear, gift inscription dated 1948 on half title. Covers and contents clean. The life story of Matthew Henson who accompanied Peary. This book was written in close collaboration with Henson himself. The photographs include 4 taken by Henson in 1909 near the North Pole. 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: 3344. .

Albert Bonniers Frolag, 1956. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition; Swedish Text "The unknown continent: A book about Antarctica." 250pp, illustrated, b/w photographs, maps. Pictorial paperback covers bound into green cloth hard covers with gilt tiling to spine. Ex Libris, SPRI Library stamp on fep, SIGNED: Presentation label to SPRI signed by author tipped onto page verso cover.Account of his Antarctic work with Chile in 1951-52, including the politics. 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: 1470. .

The Travel Book Club, 1950. Cloth. Good. Travel Book Club Edition; xv, 172pp, endpaper maps, 6 b/w ilustrations. Green cloth cover with black titling to spine in pictorial dustjacket. An anthology of Polar incidents written by an enthusiast. This is a book that tells the tale of travels in the desolate lands of the Antarctic, from the earliest visitors to this unknown land to more modern day adventurers and explorers. Dust wrapper torn, repaired with sellotape, also cover had been stuck to front and rear cover with sellotape, pages age toned, minor foxing to page edges, 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: 596. .

Michael Joseph, London, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st UK Edition: 27 pages, illustrated, lovely chapter heading woodcuts by Rosemary Kilbourn, end paper maps. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, minor spotting to page edges, contents clean, dust jacket nibbled with a couple of minor splits now repaired with archival quality tape. Covers nice and bright. "Between 1947 and 1949, the author became friendly with the Ihalmiut, the forty-nine survivors of a tribe which once numbered thousands. He learned their way of life, their spiritual and physical dependence on the caribou, their pleasures and their many fears. Out of his love and respect for them came a vibrant book." 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: 2520. .

The Adventurers Club, 1962. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 2nd Edition; 191pp, illustrated, 1 map, 14 b/w photographs. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine in unclipped dustjacket. A graphic and absorbing account of life in the Arctic for the author, a doctor to the Distant Early Warning Line, more widely known as the DEW line. This consisted of a chain of radar stations that were linked across 600,000 square miles of the Arctic. His base was on Baffin Island, where he ran a small, fairly primitive hospital. When patients were ill he flew to treat them, and also answered distress calls from Eskimos. acting as both dentist and vet to their huskies. This gave him the raw material for this account of life in the Arctic, . its people, wild life, birds and seal hunting. Shelfware, dustjacket spotted on inside, bumped, some minor foxing, mainly to page edges and prelims, contents clean. Very Good/ Dustjacket Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic;… Read More

Blandford Press, Oxford, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; xxiii, 279 pages, illustrated, including 27 watercolours by the author, beautiful. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Shelfware, few minor splits to dust jacket. Contents clean and bright. Full Title: DIARY OF THE TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC 1910-1912. An account of Scott's last expedition edited from the original mss. in the Scott Polar Research Institute and the British Museum By H.G.R. King. An account of Scott's last expedition edited from the original manuscript in the Scott Polar Research Institute and the British Museum by H.G. R. "Edward Wilson was Chief Scientific Officer in charge of all scientific work on the 'Terra Nova' Expedition, and he was closest to Scott of all the expedition members. His Diary is a fascinating close personal account of this heroic and tragic journey, and a document of the first importance for all those intersted in the Polar… Read More

Blandford Press, UK, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, 416 pages, illustrated throughout, 47 watercolours by the author, b/w drawings and maps in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Edge wear to dust jacket and minor stain to top of dust jacket. Contents clean and bright, a lovely copy. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3387. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. SIGNED Original Report: The urino-genital system of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) with appendix The dimensions and growth of the kidney of blue and fin whales. Signed "With compliments FD Ommanney"on front cover. Contents clean. 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: 3488. .

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. SIGNED Original Report: The vascular networks (retia mirabilia) of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), Signed "With compliments FD Ommanney"on front cover. Contents clean. 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: 707. .

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: Some aspects of respiration in Blue and Fin Whales, pp363-406, plate XV, 4 figures in text,. Original wrappers. 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: 3489. .

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1942. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: pages 239-264, plates VI-XIII, 6 figures in text, Original wrappers Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biology; Seals; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 699. .

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1936. First Edition. Disbound. Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: THE BIRDS OF THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS. pp349-376, plates X-XII, 1 map in text. Disbound, no wrappers, some foxing. Reading copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Ornithology; Birds; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1647. .

G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. Inscribed by Author. 1st Edition; SIGNED, xxi, 405pages, SIGNED "To Marie, with all the good wishes in the world Dick Byrd" on half title page. Frontispiece portrait photograph, 94 b/w illustrations, 2 maps by James Darley (including end papers). Dust jacket slightly tatty, shelfware, contents clean. Introduction by Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy. Rear Admiral Byrd USN Retired tells the story of geographical exploration, scientific achievement and adventure at the South Pole. Follow-up to his earlier book, Little America. (His wife was called Marie). This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1930s; Exploration. Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

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. .

William Blackwood And Sons, 1865. None. Reading Copy. 4th Edition; xxvi, 358pp MISSING covers, illustrations and maps - Text block ONLY. A fascinating read of one of the great historical polar explorations in the search for the North-West Passage. As of 2011 Parks Canada has begun salvaging the H.M.S. Investigator and at some point hope to raise the ship to the surface. 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: 2653. .

Reader's Digest, 1979. Early Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 2nd Reprint with amendments, 191pp, 60 b/w and colour illustrations, 8 maps. Laminated plictorial hardback with cloth spine.Contents include : The Ends of the Earth. A Northern Passage to Cathay. The Great Southland. The Search for Sir John Franklin. The True Viking. Reaching the North Pole. Duel for the South Pole. The Home of the Blizzard. The Riddle of the Copper Eskimos. Shackleton in the Antarctic. The Poles Today. Covers sunned, 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: 2713. .

Reardon Publishing, England, 2001. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 1st Edition; SIGNED COPY: Over 500 b/w & colour photographs, paintings, drawings. Appears Unread. As New in unclipped dust jacket. Signed by David Wilson, the great nephew of Edward Wilson, and by Judy Skelton, the granddaughter of Reginald Skelton. Judy Skelton and David Wilson have used the expedition's original photographs, paintings and drawings, together with extracts from their forebears' journals, to give the reader an experience of this voyage of exploration as close as possible to that of the men who were there. Superbly illustrated, published to mark the centenary of the Expedition. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. ISBN: 187387748X. ISBN/EAN: 9781873877487. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 74. . 9781873877487 This book is extra heavy,… Read More

Putnam, New York, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; xxi, 405 pages, illustrated 46 pages of b/w photographs including frontispiece, 3 maps including those to end papers. Introduction by Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy. Blue cloth covers in dust jacket. Covers dulled, spine faded, dust jacket worn, chipped, split and creased with fading to the spine. Contents clean and bright. Byrd tells the story of geographical exploration, scientific achievement and adventure at the South Pole. Follow-up to his earlier book, Little America. 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: 1423. .