Exploration from Polar Books

Methuen & Co, London, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Vol I - lxxx, 520 pages Vol II - xiv, 624 pages. Illustrated, portrait frontispieces, plates, about 800 illustrations, folding panorama, maps, (1 folding). Original covers. A very good set, shelf wear, minor fraying to corners of… Ler mais sobre este item

The Book Guild, UK, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. 1st Edition: 228 pages,illustrated with b/w and colour photos, 7 maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. Swithinbank, a glaciologist, has had more places named after him than any living… Ler mais sobre este item

University of Minnesota Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition; xi, 140 pages, illustrated with photographs and paintings. Original covers in pictorial dust jacket. Contents clean, shelf wear to dust jacket. Wonderfully illustrated with Parmelee's stunning photographs and watercolors, this book is the synthesis of 13 years of research.… Ler mais sobre este item

Canterbury University Press, UK, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/Very Good. 1st Edition: SIGNED by the Author, McElrea on the title page. 315 pages, illustrated 32 pages of b/w photos, pictorial end papers. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Provides the first in-depth account of the Ross Sea party, the drift of… Ler mais sobre este item

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. 1st UK Edition: 216 pages, illustrated, map, b/w photos. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, repaired tears to dust jacket, neat previous owners signature on front end papers otherwise contents clean, publishers details rubbed out on title page. … Ler mais sobre este item

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Printing February 1925: 270 pages, illustrated b&w photos, 1 folding map. Pages uncut, original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, spotting to page edges and some pages, contents clean. "The book is the narrative of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Allan Wingate, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: xxii, 334 pages, xviii index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, plates, maps including large folding map at end of book. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Covers sunned, shelf wear, some spotting to page edges and end papers, prelims. To the Arctic… Ler mais sobre este item

The Erskine Press, UK, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 144 pages plus publishers adverts. Softcover, illustrated with b/w photos, maps. As New, appears unread. In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons… Ler mais sobre este item

Allan Wingate, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xxi, 334 pages, index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, maps including large folding map. Original covers, no dust jacket. School presentation copy with presentation bookplate dated 1935 and previous owners neat inscription on verso cover, contents clean. Shelf wear, covers faded,… Ler mais sobre este item

The Erskine Press, UK, 2003. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 2003 Reprint; ii, 44 pages, 1 map. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In August 1914 Shackleton set sail for the South Pole on the Endurance.… Ler mais sobre este item

Granada Publishing, London, 1980. Paperback. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Paperback, 302 pages, illustrated, 14 b/w photos. Ernest Shackleton's third Antarctic expedition sailed from London. His ship was the Endurance, but little did her complement know that their own Endurance would be tested to the full after the ship was trapped in the ice in the… Ler mais sobre este item

Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition: Vol I, xvi, 496 pages; Vol II, xii, 504 pages, illustrated with 62 b/w photos,NOTE: All the 4 maps in pocket at end of volume 2 are Professional COPIES (the large map is in colour). Original covers.… Ler mais sobre este item

Harper & Brothers, London, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol I xxi, 551 pages, Vol II xxii-xv, 580 pages. Appendices, indices. Illustrated throughout with over one hundred eighty black & white drawings, plates, 5 maps. Hardcovers, rebacked very nicely. Shelf wear, corners bumped, some minor foxing. NOTE: All maps have… Ler mais sobre este item

Macmillan and Co.,, London, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xxxi, 784 pages, illustrated, b/w plates, 9maps (2 folding maps in rear pocket are later professional copies). Original Cloth covers, rebacked, no dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper, pages slightly wrinkled, overall a very nice copy. Contains… Ler mais sobre este item

Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2002 Paperback Edition: 292 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps. Previous owners inscription back of front cover otherwise contents clean. Appears unread. 2 books in one. Great reading. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 1841582204. ISBN/EAN:… Ler mais sobre este item

Bluntisham Books, Erskine Press, UK, 1977. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1977 Bluntisham Edition: xv 464 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps, including a large folding map at the end of the book. Original covers, no dust jacket. A beautifully produced book matching very closely the character and quality of the original… Ler mais sobre este item

Longmans,Green & Co, London, 1947. Third Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Reprinted by Novographic Process 1947 Edition; x, 308 pages, illustrated, map end papers, b/w photos. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers stained, spine sunned, spotting to page edges. The author was a lecturer in zoology and made this voyage… Ler mais sobre este item

John Murray, London, 1952. 6th Edition or Higher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Reading Copy/Fair. 10th impression, pocket sized highly abridged 1 volume edition: 188 pages, illustrated, 22 b/w photos, map end papers. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Contents: Preface, Names of Officers and Men, Scott's early days and naval career, Through Stormy Seas,… Ler mais sobre este item

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, USA, 1981. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1981 Edition: xliii xv, 382 pages plus publishers catalogue, illustrated, coloured folding map, b/w frontispiece, photos. Original covers, no dust jacket. Previous owners signature and date on front end paper otherwise contents clean. A nice copy Quantity Available: 1.… Ler mais sobre este item

Lyons Press, distributed by Airlife Publishing Limited, 1998. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Lyons Press 1998 Softcover Edition; xxi, 376 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps. Small neat previous owners verso front cover otherwise contents clean. As New. Probably the most evocative narrative of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, telling of the survival of… Ler mais sobre este item