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Boards. Facsimile Edition. Royal 8vo, pp. xxiv, (approx. 170) unpaginated,b/w ills., illustrated endpapers, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition in near-fine d.j. Facsimile edition of the first book published in the Antarctic, from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jackets. 1st Edition. nice two-volume set; all plates presents; three maps and one folding panorama in rear pocket of volume 2; a little fading and wear; inner hinges tender; name of previous owner on endpaper. Robert Underwood Johnson [editor]; Clarence Clough Buel [editor] (illustrator).…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st Limited Edition: This is copy 43 of a limited edition of 250. Original covers, no dust jacket, all page edges gilt. Copiously illustrated drawings in the text and full-page plates from sketches and paintings by E. Wilson and others. Gutta-percha binding very delicate with leaves just loosening. (Gutta Percha was used as the binding glue in many early books, it is not a difficult job to remove and reback using modern glues) Ex Library with various library stamps on some pages. The South Polar Times was a magazine written and printed by the members of Antarctic Expeditions during the various voyages they undertook. The South Polar Times form what is perhaps the most personal of the printed documents to have come out of that most remarkable of periods of Antarctic adventures revealing so many often contradictory aspects of these men's various personalities. 'During the Antarctic winter of 1902 and 1903, the officers of the National Antarctic Expedition on board the Discovery, among other diversions wherewith to lighten the long and dreary darkness, brought out at monthly intervals a periodical to which they gave the name of "The South Polar Times" the contents of which range over a wide field, grave and gay, scientific and humorous, prose and poetry. It contains a diary of the events of each month, a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society, a monthly acrostic, humorous notes, besides articles of a more solid nature, as well as stories, sketches of various kinds, and poems of a standard considerably above average.' One of the corner stones of an Antarctic collection. Volume 1 & 2 were Scott's 1st "Discovery Expedition" Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 39. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. …