"Beware of the person of one book."
— Thomas Aquinas

London: George Ronald, 1961. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.136. With 12 black and white photographic plates and two maps. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Mary, / with the warmest Baha'; / greetings / Paul Adams'. In publisher's light blue cloth with red titles to spine. With original blue pictorial dust-jacket. Blue ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. Jacket price-clipped and rubbed to edges. Very good overall. A first-hand account of life as a seasonal hunter in Svalbard during 1958 by a London-born adventurer taken under the wing of legendary Norwegian hunter Hilmar Nois. Item #48107
Price: £45.00