New York: Lee Keedick; 1913; First American edition in two volumes [The English Translation of 'Sydpolen'] [6.75x9.25”]; Dark navy blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt with other edges uncut; Vol. I, [1], xxxv, 392 pp., Vol. II, x, 449 pp., 134 plates... More
London: Author, Chatto and Windus; 1951; Library Edition with corrections and postscript [1948] in one volume [first published in 1922] [6.25x9”]; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on cover and spine with fore and bottom edges uncut; Cream dust jacket with black lettering and color illustration of Antarctic landscape with... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California; 1997; First Edition limited to 350, designed and printed by Patrick Reagh [8.25x11”]; Blue-gray printed patterned paper on boards with red cloth half-title, cream paper label with black lettering and blue design, light green illustration of ships at anchor [Likely Yerba Buena] on... More
![Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827; [Including and account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward by John Richardson]. John Franklin.](/pictures/thumb/13012.jpg?v=1453852628)
London: John Murray; 1828; First Edition [8.75x10.5”]; 20th Century Brown Half-calf with marbled boards, raised ribbed spine with gilt lettering on field of red and devices; [1], xxiv, [xxi]-xxiv, 320 pp., clvii [appendices], [1], [errata], 31 plates, including frontispiece, of illustrations by George Back and E, N, Kendall engraved by... More
Baltimore: For the Author by Henry Taylor; 1855; First edition [5x7.75”]; Dark brown cloth blind stamped decorations on front and rear covers with gilt lettering and pictorial of miner and pickax on spine; [3] xii [1] 14-300 pp. [3]; Shelf wear to all edges and corners bumped, small piece missing... More
Cambridge, UK: University Press; 1921; First Edition [7x10”]; Blue cloth covers with embossed silver lettering and colophon on spine, embossed illustration of early sailing ship in silver on front, uncut pages; xii, 539 pp., frontispiece image of Markham painting, foldout map, 50 maps and illustrations from photographs; Some shelf wear... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.; 1913; First Edition [November], two volume set [6.75x9.5”]; Dark green blue cloth covers, gilt lettering and rule on spine, top edge gilt with other edges cut; Vol. I [2] xxiv, 443 pp., folding map, sepia portrait frontispiece, 6 photogravure plates, 10 colored plates, 2... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co.; 1913; Second Edition, two volume set [6.75x9.25”]; Dark blue cloth covers with blind stamped borders and gilt lettering on front and spine with gilt rule, top edge gilt with other edges uncut; Vol. I [2] xxvi, 633 pp., folding map with tipped in explanatory note... More
London: William Heinemann; 1919; First Edition [November] [6.25x10”]; Dark blue cloth covers with silver lettering on spine and front, illustration of Endurance on front [from Hurley photograph on p. 45] and spine, blind stamped Publisher colophon on rear cover, top edge blue; xxi, [1], 376 pp., Frontispiece Colored photograph with... More
London: William Heinemann; 1909; First Edition in two volumes [7.75x10.25”]; Rebound in dark blue cloth with original binding and spine attached, silver letters and image of three explorers and flag on front and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt and other edges uncut; Vol I -xlviii, 371 pp., Vol... More
Philadelphia: By the Author; 1878; First edition [6.25x9.25”]; Maroon pebbled cloth boards beveled with black ruled edges gilt lettering and illustration of grizzly bear on front and spine, dark brown endpapers, red dyed text block cut edges, bookplate of Eva Scott Fenyes de Csokaly and John Patrick Ford; xxii [23]... More
![The Log of an Ancient Mariner; Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman | Written by Himself and Edited by His Daughter [Minnie Wakeman-Curtis]. Edgar Wakeman.](/pictures/thumb/11738.jpg?v=1453852588)
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co.; 1878; First Edition [6.25x8.75”]; Original maroon cloth covers with blind decorative stamped borders, lettered and devices in gilt on front and spine, dark brown endpapers; 378 pp, [4] advertisements, frontispiece image of Wakeman, many simple humorous black/white illustrations in text throughout; Minor shelf wear... More