Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Polar Books

Secker & Warburg, London, 1957. First Edition. . Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; xiv, 373 pages, illustrated, b/w photographs, end paper maps, maps. Blue cloth covers with titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Booksellers label and gift dedication on map front end paper. Otherwise contents clean. A well-researched and authoritative history of the exploration of Antarctica, of Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd and many others, up to the late 1950s. A history of mapmaking, sealing, whaling, polar expeditions and exploration for mineral resources. 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: 1769. .

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. .