Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting and light browning to edges and preliminaries. Boards slightly bowed, with some sunned marks and points of rubbing corresponding to losses from the jacket. Corners bumped. Price-clipped Jacket lightly browned and spotted with rubbing to joints. Several chips, some quite large, from corners and spine head and tail. A very good copy. The whaling magnate and expedition financier's impressions edited from diary entries made during trips to the Antarctic in 1930-31, 1932-33 and 1933-34. Item #51936
Price: £495.00
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