Search Results: Titles starting with F from Polar Books

Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: 191 pages, illustrated, 64 b/w photographs, maps. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine, no dust jacket. Shelf ware, covers slightly grubby, spine sunned, bumped. Contents clean. A cameraman's story in words and pictures of five journeys into the far north. Maps by Bunji Tagawa. Harrington traveled more that three thousand miles by dog team sharing the life of the Eskimo and living in caribou skin tents and igloos." One of Canada's outstanding documentary photographers. 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: 2298. .

Wally Herbert, 1965. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Spiral Bound). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Wally Herberts proposal for the British trans-Arctic Expedition, Abridged version. 34pages, maps, tables. A very interesting read. Facsimile Copy. Under the abstract there is underlining of "A proposal is outlined for the first crossing of the Arctic Ocean in which the techniques of travel are discussed at some length". [Deb was the name used for Frank Debenham by his friends and colleagues] Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1960s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2528. .

John Murray, London, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition, 1st printing: iv, 48 pages, frontispiece. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket nibbled and water stain to inside, covers sunned on edges, end papers browned, contents clean. Noted artist, ornithologist, and companion of Scott who perished with him on the return from the South Pole. Seaver was greatly influenced by Wilson and said "All that I have ever tried to picture of a modern saintliness is realised in the figure of Edward Wilson", so in this book he looks at the religious beliefs of the great Antarctic explorer. It discusses his faith in God as well as his understanding of Darwin's Evolutionary ideas. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1259. .

Bluntisham/The Erskine Press, UK, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition; xxii, (1), 202 pages, illustrated, b/w photos. Original covers, no dust jacket as issued. Appears unread, previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean. The 1st English translation of this classic of Antarctic exploration with a foreword by Baron Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery. This is his account, first published in French in 1902 and not translated into English before this edition. Account of the 1897to1899 expedition which was the first to overwinter through an Antarctic night. On board was among others a 25 year old Nowegian, Roald Amundsen. 1st English translation of "First Wintering in the Antarctic Ice: A Summary of the Voyage of the Belgica by Commander Gerlache; Extracted from Fifteen Months in the Antarctic" published in 1902.The earliest known photographs of Antarctica were taken during this voyage. This is the… Read More

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. Cloth. Very Good. 1907 Edition; xxii, 296pp, [6], illustrated, 105 plates (9 colour), 3 maps (1 folding). SIGNED by Author "? ? R.H. Pomeroy with gratitude of Anthony Fiala June 25 1907" on fep. With an introduction by W.S. Champ, and reports by William J. Peters, Russell W. Porter and Oliver S Fassig. illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author. Also nine, from paintings, in colour by Russell W. Porter and J. Knowles Hare. Original green blind stamp boards with gilt titling to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. The author was the Commander of the Zeigler-Fiala Polar Expedition. Narrative of the Zeigler Polar Expedition, 1903-05. A 35 man party aboard the America proceeded to Rudolph Island, northernmost Franz Josef Land, where the ship was lost in the ice. They made three attempts to reach the North Pole using pony and dog sledge. Previous owners name and address verso front cover., spine loosening and beginning to split at feps.,… Read More

Newnes, London, 1901. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xvi, 333 pages, 3 folding maps, 32 publishers adverts, photogravure frontispiece, 18 full-page plates, 183 mostly photographic text illustrations, original blue decorative cloth covers with ship vignette to front cover in gilt and silver, gilt explorer with staff on skis on spine. Top page edges gilt. Possible evidence of neat library stamp removal to spine. Previous ownership inscription in pencil on half title. Discreet Library stamp (Botany Division, Christchurch NZ) to 1st page chapter 1 but no other library markings. The account of the first expedition to make winter camp on the Antarctic mainland and the first to use dog teams. Spine slightly worn and faded, corners bumped, some slight foxing mainly to prelims, frontispiece and tissue paper guard. A very nice copy. The expedition, sponsored by Sir George Newnes and led by Borchgrevink, in the Ship "Southern Cross", was the first to establish a… Read More

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. .

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

The Book Guild, UK, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition. 1st Edition: viii, 260 pages, illustrated with 100 b/w photographs, maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In 1948 Charles Swithinbank, still an undergraduate at Oxford, applied to join the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. A year later, after training in Swedish Lapland, at 22 he was the youngest member as he set out to spend two and a half years in the splendid isolation of Antarctica. The author joined the expedition on graduating from Cambridge and has since visited the Antarctic over 20 times - a fascinating insight into that first expedition. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; ISBN: 1857764064. ISBN/EAN: 9781857764062. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3733. .… Read More

Hutchinson & Co, 1938. Early Edition. Cloth. Fair Condition. UK Edition; 308pp, illustrated with 53 b/w illustrations by the author, 6 maps (1 double sided folding), decorated endpapers. Grey cloth covers with blue titling, no dustjacket. Interesting account of the way of life in the northern reaches of Siberia. "An amazing human story of the last pioneers: 40,000 men and women living in modern towns, with factories, airplanes, orchards next door to polar beers and reindeer." Ex school library. Bookplate to front paste down. Shelfware, covers grubby, fraying, rear hinge splitting and map poorly folded with small tears. Reading Copy. Ex Libris with usual stamps and markings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Russia; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2840. .

Hutchinson & Co, London, 1938. Revised Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition; 288 pages, 53 illustrations by author and double-sided folding map, creased. Original hardcover, no dust jacket. Covers grubby and spine sunned, age toning to pages, 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: 970. .

The Book Guild, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: 228 pages,illustrated with b/w and colour photos, 7 maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Ex libri remains of spine label, usual stamps, markings to prelims, withdrawn stamps on title page, rest of contents clean. Shelf wear, bottom of covers fraying. Swithinbank is a glaciologist who has had more places named after him than any living explorer and whose polar expeditions are detailed here. Baffin Island by ice breaker, sailing under the ice, travelling the largest ship ever to navigate the Northwest Passage, Antarctica. A Scarce book. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 1857762614. ISBN/EAN: 9781857762617. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3642. . 9781857762617

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 273pages, end paper maps, illustrated, colour frontispiece, 20 b/w photo. Original hardcover, no dust jacket. Contents clean. Account of the 1947 expedition to Heard Island. The expedition sailed 2500 miles and spent 15 months making scientific surveys. This is the first UK edition. 273 pages. 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: 3225. .

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1897. Second Edition. Cloth. Good. 2nd Edition; [7], x, 290pp [12pp advertisements]. Green cloth covers with gilt title and ship vignette to spine with gilt and black title and portrait vignette front. Illustrated with photograph portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs and other illustrations, teg. Pale cream and gold floral endpapers. Some minor foxing, mainly to page edges, light toning to free endpapers otherwise clean pages. 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: 1808. .

Macmillan and Co.,, London, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xxxi, 784 pages, illustrated, b/w plates, 9maps (2 folding maps in rear pocket are later professional copies). Original Cloth covers, rebacked, no dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper, pages slightly wrinkled, overall a very nice copy. Contains preface by Stefansson, foreword by Gilbert Grosvenor, and introduction by Sir Robert Borden, describing the origin and the organisation of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918. A very nice copy. 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: 3724. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1894. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; ix, 364 pages, 2 maps (1 folding, 1 full-page, 1 in text). 120 illustrations (8 full-page), 32 pages publisher's advertisements. Original decorative cloth covers with silver titling. Shelfware, spine softening, covers bumped and corners beginning to fray but overall still good. Some foxing throughout, more so to prelims. A nice copy. "This was an important whaling expedition to the Weddell Sea, the first of its kind since 1843. This expedition helped to revive an interest in the Antarctic and provides a fascinating insight into shipboard life in that era. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Whales; 19th century; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 248. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

C.Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1906. Cloth. Very Good. New Edition; Presentation bookplate on front pastedown dated 1907, 296pp, (8pp publishers catalogue). Illustrated, map frontispiece, 7 b/w plates. Grey covers decorated with an ice bound ship and titled in black and silver. Shelfware, covers sunned. Presentation plate on front pastedown, eps beginning to split at hinges, page age toned, 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: 2783. .

Evans Brothers, 1958. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition; 191pp, photgraphic frontispiece plus 12 plates, maps in text. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine.No dustjacket. History of Antarctic exploration, written just after Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Antarctica; the author places this achievement into historical context by relating it to the previous expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, and Byrd; includes an appendix giving a 'list of the explorers, from the earliest known to the present day, whose names are perpetuated on the charts of Antarctica; Gift inscription on fep, spine bumped, minor markings to covers. 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: 1529. .

A. & C. Black Limited, 1977. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1977 Edition: A. & C. Black Facsimile reprint of the 1922 edition, the folding map is a non-folding frontispiece in this edition; xii, 288 pages, illustrated, 16 pages of b/w illustrations, 2 maps. Black cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Shelf ware, appears unread. Contents clean. Interesting account of the ill-fated journey of the whale ship "Diana" during the mid-nineteenth century. The author's log of a fourteen-month whaling voyage to the North Sea and the Davis Strait, which resulted in the Diana - the first whaling steamer in Hull - becoming stranded in ice for several months. Not all survived the ordeal, but she did sail back home. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Fishing & Hunting. ISBN: 0904505294. ISBN/EAN: 9780904505290. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No:… Read More

Government Printing Office, 1895. Edition Unstated. Cloth. Very Good. 3 folding maps,(2 very large). Brown cloth covers with gilt tiling to spine. The tribunal was convened "under the treaty between the United States of America and Great Britain concluded at Washington, Feb. 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of the Bering Sea."Part of a series of volumes recording the resolution of jurisdictional rights between the United States and Great Britain regarding seal hunting in the Bering Sea. This volume consists of the appendices to the Case presented on the Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty. [Fur Seal Arbitration, Volume IV] Great Britain's Case. Fur seals were an important industry in the late nineteenth century. The United States claimed exclusive rights to the sealing industry in the Bering Sea. The United Kingdom disputed this claim and the matter was… Read More