Man and The Conquest Of the Poles

Victor, Paul Emile. Man and the Conquest of the Poles. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1964. 1st Edition. 8vo. Green cloth, silver titles to spine. Top edge blue. Endpapers polar map illustrations, With unclipped dustwrapper. 306pp with many black and white images throughout. Dustwrapper, binding and pages in excellent tight and clean condition.

Simon and Schuster, 1963, 1st. VG/VG. Bit of shelfwear/soiling. DJ w/ some rubbing/edgewear; few small dings/chips; price on front flap has been inked out; in dustjacket protector. Illustrated with some B&W photos. 000022919

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First British Edition. Published London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964, first printing. 8vo., viii+306 pp., illustrated with b/w plates, map end papers. Light foxing spots on edges of page block, otherwise very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Large, heavy, sturdy book, quality brown cloth, black lettering very fine on spine, blue and white illustration of Northern Polar Regions inside front cover and adjacent end paper, of Antarctica Regions inside back cover and adjacent end paper, 306 lightly browned pages, full-page glossy photos throughout. Ink… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964 Polar exploration from Pytheas in the 4th century BC to the voyages of nuclear submarines. Not only the big boys, Cook, Roald, Amundsen, Scott, Peary and Byrd but also the hundreds of lesser known men, the lost expeditions, and the rival explorers who found themselves eclipsed by others successes. A fascinating account which could have been… Read more about this item