The Home Of the Blizzard Being the Story Of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

London: Heinemann, 1915. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good - condition. Douglas Mawson, a veteran of Ernest Shackleton's "Nimrod" expedition (1907-09), returned to Australia and was selected to lead the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Mawson's tale is one of the great stories of survival of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Exploring with Ninnis & Mertz… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1915. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xxx,349;xiii,338pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Original decorated blue cloth with two photogravure plates (frontispieces), eighteen colour plates, B&W plates from photos, illustrations (including maps), and three folding maps in rear pocket of volume II. Spine lettering on both volumes somewhat dull as ususal. Both front boards are bright… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1915. 1st US edition. Hardcover. 3rd state of the binding, in orange buckram, ex-lib copy. shelf number on spine, no stamps on plates, only stamp is on inside cover. Uncut pages. LACKS - in Vol 1, the color plate at p. 172; Vol II, the plate at p. 98 & folding map of Queen Mary Land. HAS… Read more about this item

1915. London, William Heinemann, 1915. Two volumes, royal 8vo. Original blue cloth, image of Webb leaning into the wind blocked in silver to upper boards, lettered in gilt to upper covers and spines; pp. xxx, 349; xiii, 338; photogravure frontispiece to each volume, numerous photographic plates including some double-page and some after colour photographs, illustrations to text, 3 large… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1914 Circa 1914. xxx, 349pp; xiii, [1], 338pp, [2], uniformly bound in the original red cloth, deckled page edges, hinges starting, bindings tight. With the small bookplate of John J. Atwater. Covers show sunning, soiling, Interiors in Very Good Condition. Illustrated throughout, the Errata Slip is intact, with the three… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 349 & 338 pages; Covers of both volumes show some light rubbing and wear. Name and date on front free endpaper in both volumes. .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1930. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, 3 folding maps, pp xxxi, 438. Spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate. Previous owner's signature. Pencilled sketch on rear endpaper. Very good condition. First edition of the first popular edition, abridged and revised from the original two volume edition published in 1915. Many of the illustrations were not in… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. Reprinted. 438 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and staining to gutters but… Read more about this item

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.. xxxii+438pp. Large 8vo. Original cloth, b&w plates, three folding maps, offsetting to title page, prize label, a very good copy.. Abridged Popular Edition. First edition thus. Upper pane of dustwrapper loosely inserted.

William Heinemann, 1915. 1915 First Edition. hardcover. xxx, 349pp, xiii, 338pp, colour and black and white illustrations, 3 folding maps (2 are reproduced), later plain blue cloth bindings with gilt titling to spines, spines faded, corners bumped, light foxing to endpapers, internally clean, Good in colour photocopies of the original dustwrappers.. Mawson turned down an invitation to join… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Front gutter weak, ink inscrip. to pd, spine heavily sunned, spine bumped, boards with some light dampstaining.. 2nd. Hard. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.

Hardback. New.