Cook Ed Up Peary Odd Ical Dictionary Hoot by Dash Paul (4 results)

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

John W. Luce, Boston, 1910, 1st edition, unpaginated (approximately 67 pages), illustrated in b&w by D. C. Bartholomew, grey endpapers decorated with caricatures and epigrams, 4.5"x 7.5", hardcover, silver paper covered boards with white paper covered spine, white stamped titles and decorations, corners and spine bumped and rubbed with wear present, edge wear, covers and spine scuffed and soiled, white titles faded and white of front cover decoration mostly gone, short closed tear to page with 'K' entries, something was once tipped onto recto of frontispiece - removed by a previous owner, otherwise contents clean and tight, book good+ {A humourous, often bitingly sarcastic, look at the North Pole expeditions of the early 20th century and the debate surrounding them} (G+) 3804 [(s)1107KW].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. D.C. Bartholomew (illustrator). 1st Edition. Boston: Luce, 1910. 1st edition, VG+. Book has some water staining to spine, wear & light fraying to corners and edges, rubbing to both panels. Includes Produce Your Eskimos envelope with plastic promotional disk inside glued to first blank page. Includes "How to reach the North Pole", "The well known authors say", the A to Z Dictionary, "Geographical Observations", "Who's Hoot" and "The Igloo Companion". Funny spoof on the Peary - Cook rush to the North Pole and especially the hype which accompanied it. Quite rare, especially with the envelope and disk.