Constance Martin Editors (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued. First Thus. A Lakeside Classic. Brown cloth binding. The book is still in the original shrink wrap. New. Pristine. And, the book will be sent to you well packed in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket (As Issued). First Edition Thus. The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA, December 1996. First (1st) Printing of this First Edition Thus. As new condition. No Dust Jacket (as issued). Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, very tight, straight and square with top-edge bright gilt and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full chocolate brown vellum with the publisher's logo in bright gilt on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. See photos. lix + 447 + i pages. 4 1/2" x 6 7/8". Kane's account was originally published by Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia, 1856. This edition adds an extensive historical introduction, mostly about Elisha Kent Kane, "an improbable arctic explorer" in their words, by Chauncey Loomis and Constance Martin, who also edited the text. In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin set out from the UK with two ships, the Terror and the Erebus, to explore the Northwest Passage. They were lost and never heard from again. In subsequent years, many attempts were made to discover what happened to them. This is the account of one of those expeditions. Numerous illustrations and four pages of color maps.…

Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW COPY. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Upper text block in gilt. Lakeside Classics series Vol. 94. Literary account of explorer, physician & naval officer Dr Elishsa Kent Kane (1820 - 1857), leader of The Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853, the American effort to determine the fate of Sir John Franklin's (1786 - 1847) expedition. The team explored northwest of Greenland (now known as Grinnell Land). Though unable to find clues to Franklin, the expedition did set a new record in northward penetration, and discovered the long-sought-for open Polar Sea. 447 pgs. 31 chapters of graphic records of discoveries including flora, fauna, native peoples & meteroroligcal events, agumented by illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 450 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Top edge gilt w/ few scratch marks to gilt. Illust. w/ color maps, and b/w photos and drawings. Contents very nice.