Shackleton L C (9 results)

Condition: New.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcovers; ex-corporate library; in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; black c w/gilt titles; 360 clean, unmarked pages/index. 589 Illustrations, 173 in Color; 416 Photographs, Engraving, Drawings and Maps (illustrator).

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. 1� Edición. Tapa dura. Buen estado. Dep. Legal: B. 33787-1972. 589 ilustraciones de ellas 173 en color. 416 fotografías, grabados, dibujos y mapas. Dirigida por Alfred Cobban. Gran formato. Historia. Historia del arte. VV.AA. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Thames and Hudson, London, 1969. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated in sections with colour and with black and white plates. 4 fold-out colour plates. 589 illustrations. 173 in colour. 416 photographs, engravings, drawings, and maps. 360 pages. The book measures 36 cm (H) x 27 cm (W) 4cm (D). Dustjacket. Page edges lightly tanned. (The plate edges are not lightly tanned, however). A very good copy in a good dustjacket. This is a heavy item weighing approximately 2.7 kg (6 lbs) therefore its shipment overseas will incur an additional shipping charge.…

Condition: Fine. Centenary Edition. Three volumes bound in the matching vertical grained blue cloth. The first two volumes have a mounted image of the Discovery in Winter Quarters on the front board. The third volume has a mounted image of the hut on the front board. Spine titles in gilt as well as on boards. All edges gilt. Gilt rope work around illustration. Numerous plates and illustrations including mounted images, full page and in text. Illustrations are both colour and black and white. The coloured illustrations all appear to be chromolithographs. A mint set of the very high quality facsimile edition. Included with the set is the new Volume 4 published in 2010 and edited by Ann Savours. This facsimile edition is limited to 350 copies, this being 342. Rosove 287.A1 and 291.A1; Spence 1094; Taurus Collection 42 all for the original edition To quote from the original text: '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 "The South Polar Times". The contents of "The South Polar Times" 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 cornerstones of an Antarctic collection and very fairly priced for a reprint of this quality.…

First limited edition. 3 vols. Volume I April to August 1902 [Volume II April to August 1903], [April to October, 1911]. V1&2: 70 plates in colour, b&w and sepia, mostly within pagination of vols 1 & 2, including 1 folding map, numerous illustrations in text; V3: 3 colour frontispieces and 33 full page plates, as above. Vols. I & II, unnumbered and with an additional limitation leaf noted "presentation copy" in print. In variant bindings without pictorial vignette. Vol. III no 218 of 350. Folios. V3 with standard pictorial cloth, gilt. A.e.g. Vols 1 & 2 in near fine condition with bright unfaded cloth, a little offsetting between illustrated tp and frontis of V2; V3 with slight dampstaining to cloth and pastedowns. (2)ll, xivpp, (iv), 27, (iii), 48, (iii), 41, (ii), 47, (ii), 49ll; (2)ll, viiipp, (iv), 40, (iv), 69, (iv), 58; xvpp, 152ll, 153-160pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co.,  Loosely inserted in vol 1 is a business card from bookseller Richard Kossow, noting on the back that these volumes were bought privately from Jock Murray, son of John Murray. This may explain the binding and additional presentation leaf - this variant is not noted in Rosove's comprehensive bibliography.    "The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original "South Polar Times" which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the Discovery, then held fast in the Antarctic Ice." Thus begins Captain Scott's preface to the South Polar Times, which became a major diversion for the men on board the Discovery during the long sunless winter from 23rd April until 21st August.   Scott wrote of it more fully in the official account: "The scheme for publication was discussed long before the sun left us, and by general consent Shackleton was appointed editor. It was decided that each number should contain besides the editorial, a summary of the events and meteorological conditions of the past month, certain scientifically instructive articles dealing with our work and our surroundings, and certain others written in a lighter vein. As the scheme developed it was found that other features, such as full-page caricatures, acrostics, and puzzles could be added; and now each month sees the production of a stout volume which is read with much interest and amusement by everyone."   Shackleton "was responsible for the most famous examples of printing in the Antarctic. In addition to the first book printed in Antarctica, Aurora Australia (1907), Shackleton oversaw and contributed to the South Polar Times, first published on Scott's expedition to Antarctica on the Discovery, and again on Scott's fatal Terra Nova expedition of 1911-1914. Shackleton was also a contributor to the Antarctic Petrel, printed during his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09" (Stam & Stam).   Rosove, 287.A1 & 291.A2; Spence, 1094; Scott, R.F. The Voyage of the Discovery (London, 1905), vol. I, p.362; Stam, David & Deidre, "Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Polar Naval Expeditions" in Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2008), p.312.…

First edition; 3 vols, 4to; vols I & II limited to 250 copies, vol. III to 350 copies for sale, illustrated with 3 frontispieces, 2 folding maps, numerous illustrations, many full-page, many coloured; original blue cloth gilt with pictorial insets to upper covers, soft crease to spine vol. 1, a very attractive set. An exact reproduction of The South Polar Times magazine originally issued during the Antarctic expeditions of Robert F. Scott. 'Once the sun goes down in the polar regions, you're in it for the long haul: five months of darkness, nothing to do and mercury the wrong side of 40. Besides winding the gramophone, giving lectures and, that British staple, dressing up as girls, the explorers of the heroic age published their own newspapers. It was a tradition established on Arctic expeditions and enthusiastically taken up by Scott on his first trip south in 1902, when he appointed his team-mate Ernest Shackleton editor of the South Polar Times. After a well-lubricated banquet featuring noisettes d'agneau Darwinian and charlotte russe glacà e à la Beardmore, Cherry presented the South Polar Times to Scott with everyone gathered around the table and a Christmas tree made from ski poles. The captain read most of it out loud, interrupted by uproarious laughter and indignant barracking' (Sara Wheeler, The Telegraph, 2012). 'It has always seemed churlish to list this title under Shackleton, who only edited the first of the three volumes, for the publication arose during Scott's two expeditions. On the first of these, Shackleton was invalided home before its completion, while he was most decidedly not a member of the second Scott effort. Still, this should not detract from the publication, a lithographed facsimile of typescripts produced by members of Scott's party during three bleak Antarctic winters spent in his company' (Taurus). Volume l (April to August 1902) was edited by Sir Ernest Shackleton; Volume II (April to August 1903) by Louis Bernacchi. These volumes were published in 1907 with a preface by Scott. Volume III (April to October 1911) issued during Scott's last expedition, was edited by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Taurus 42 & 79; Rosove 287.A1 & 291.A2; Conrad p.121; Spence 1094.…

First limited edition. 3 vols. Volume I April to August 1902 [Volume II April to August 1903], [April to October, 1911]. Vols. I & II, no. 136 of 250 copies vol. III no 216 of 350. Numerous illustrations throughout many in colour. Folio. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, some wear & repair to headcaps. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1907- "The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original "South Polar Times" which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the Discovery, then held fast in the Antarctic Ice." Thus begins Captain Scott's preface to the South Polar Times, which became a major diversion for the men on board the Discovery during the long sunless winter from 23rd April until 21st August.   Scott wrote of it more fully in the official account: "The scheme for publication was discussed long before the sun left us, and by general consent Shackleton was appointed editor. It was decided that each number should contain besides the editorial, a summary of the events and meteorological conditions of the past month, certain scientifically instructive articles dealing with our work and our surroundings, and certain others written in a lighter vein. As the scheme developed it was found that other features, such as full-page caricatures, acrostics, and puzzles could be added; and now each month sees the production of a stout volume which is read with much interest and amusement by everyone."   Shackleton "was responsible for the most famous examples of printing in the Antarctic. In addition to the first book printed in Antarctica, Aurora Australia (1907), Shackleton oversaw and contributed to the South Polar Times, first published on Scott's expedition to Antarctica on the Discovery, and again on Scott's fatal Terra Nova expedition of 1911-1914. Shackleton was also a contributor to the Antarctic Petrel, printed during his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09" (Stam & Stam).   Rosove, 287.A1; Spence, 1094; Scott, R.F. The Voyage of the Discovery (London, 1905), vol. I, p.362; Stam, David & Deidre, "Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Polar Naval Expeditions" in Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2008), p.312.…