Arctic/Antarctic Exploration from Trench Books

New York: Citadel/Kensington, 2017. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal rubbing. True, modern day adventure in the Antarctic. Illus with numerous photos, some in color.

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light rubbing, not price clipped. "The People of Antarctica"...the people, the servicemen, civilians.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Gray Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Clean and unmarked, Jacket shows light rubbing/soiling."The Chronicle of an Eskimo Dog". Illus with B&W photos.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Bookplate on half-title page, clean and unmarked, nice copy. Jacket shows minor edgewear, yellowing. "The Story of an Expedition to Ungava and the Belcher Islands", found at the northern half of the Labrador Peninsula. Illus with numerous B&W photos.

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1944. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Covers soiled, shelfwear. An Alaskan adventure, edited by Erskine Caldwell. Nice sound reading copy.

New York: Pantheon, 1970. First American Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Slight lean, minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Priceclipped jacket shows light soiling. "A spellbinding documentary novel based on the great arctic adventure of S.A. Andre, who tried to sail to the North Pole in a balloon". B&W photos.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1930. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Very light foxing to spine and foredge, 2" closed tear to top of flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, light soiling, not price clipped. A narrative of adventures in the Antarctic. Illus with numerous B&W photos. Indexed.

New York: Hastings, 1979. Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Minor wear at edges, clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket shows slight edgewear, not price clipped. "A Personal History by the Last of the Great Polar Explorers" - Captain Finn Ronne, USN. Illus with many B&W photos. Introduction by Lowell Thomas.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1961. Fourth Printing . White Cloth. Very Good/Good. Bumps to corners, light soiling, unmarked. Priceclipped jacket shows wear at corners, 2" tear/crease bottom back. "The first popular book covering the entire Canadian Arctic......from the Yukon to Labrador". Illus with numerous B&W photos and maps.

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1939. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good+/Fair. Wear to edges, bumps to corners, name and light soiling to endpapers, otherwise unmarked. Price clipped jacket is quite worn at edges and corners, has been reinforced fron the back with brown packing tape(??). Fascinating topic, five great arctic mysteries, 'Disappearance of the Greenland Colony',… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Dodd Mead, 1953. Second Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Cleveland Woodward. Minor wear at corners and spine ends, very slight age darkening at edges. Jacket shows wear at corners, edges, and spine ends, light soiling, not price clipped. Interesting inscription on flyleaf, two Eskimo words that I can't make out, followed by: "(The Eskimo Greeting… Ler mais sobre este item

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. Gray Cloth. Very Good/Fair. The Quest for the North Pole, With selections from Arctic Journals". Bumps to spine ends and corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn at edges, chip to middle spine. The rare journals of various polar explorers, heavily illus with photos, maps, and drawings. Heavy volume, extra postage outside… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1958. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Minor shelfwear at edges, slight lean, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows some wear at corners and edges, not price clipped. "The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958". Co-written with Sir edmund Hillary. Heavily illus with B&W and color photos.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. First Edition . White Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. PHOTOS. Flawless but for a small mark at lower right front jacket, and a crease to the front flap. Many photos, B&W and color, of the Antarctic landscape with lengthy descriptions and text. Large, oversized volume. Extra postage will be required outside the USA.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Minor shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows slight wear to edges. Many B&W photos, drawings, maps, and diagrams.Published in cooperation with the National Audubon Society.

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Two volumes. "Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55." These volumes are quite worn in blue/gray decorative bindings that show a ship in the ice. Sound condition, no loose pages, but many pages show light foxing and evidence of use, such as… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Scribners, 1914. First Edition . Illustrated Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Herbert Senat. Covers worn and soiled, orig owner's bookplate on flyleaf, a sound copy with no loose pages. "The adventures of four classmates an a cruise to Labrador". Based on true incidents.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1929. Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light shelfwear, binding a bit loose, portion of prev owner's bookplate on back of flyleaf. Illus with photos, indexed, mapped endpapers. Extra postage outside the US due to size.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Norton, 1929. First American Edition . Cloth. Good+/Fair. A somewhat worn copy, spine slightly faded, orig owner's inscription inside front cover. Loose binding, paper torn at rear hinge. Jacket complete but worn and somewhat soiled. Real nice reading copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Robert M. McBride, 1939. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good+/Poor. Wear to corners and edges. A sound copy, clean and unmarked, illus with B&W photos. Jacket complete, somewhat faded, wear to edges, tear across the back from to right to flap fold (repairable), price clipped. True account of the author and a Mountie… Ler mais sobre este item