Search Results: polaris the story of an eskimo by ernest harold baynes

The Macmillan Company. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (eskimo dogs, biography, juvenile literature ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Macmillan Company, 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1923. Hardcover. Good. frontis, photos, xiv, 137p. Original green cloth. 21 cm. White lettering about half gone on backstrip. Foprmer owner's name on endpaper. Contents sound and clean. No jacket. First published in 1923.

New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo, xiv, 137 pages, pictorial grey-green cloth "Every incident described in this life of Polaris actually took place, and almost every one is recounted exactly as it occurred. ... [Dogs] do not possess such [human] intelligence, ... they possess canine intelligence, and this often serves them better, probably, than would our own." - Preface. The forebears of Polaris were on Adm. Peary's team mushing to the North Pole. "Introduction" by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, who sailed the "Roosevelt" for Peary, and the "Karluk" for Stefansson. Bartlett called Polaris "the finest Eskimo dog in the world". Illustrated with many photographs. 

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. 137 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Bump to top edge of both boards and the text block. Light wear to corner tips. Spine titles are rubbed and mostly gone. Some soil and foxing to both boards, more visible in certain light. Last few pages have a stain to the top margin. Otherwise the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Endpapers are toned. The story of the author and his dog Polaris, with numerous black and white photographs of this dog and others. Polaris was acquired in 1914 when the author went to Flag Island with Admiral Robert Peary to see some of the dogs which had drawn his sledges to the North Pole. Polaris was a puppy from the litter of one of these dogs. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

Macmillan, 1922. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. First printing. Bookplate inside front cover. Gift inscription on front endpaper.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Macmillan Company, 1922. Hbk 137pp, profusely illustr b+w photo plates, lacks dj, very good green cloth with white titles and ornament, rubbed at extremities, now in custom acetate jacket, altogether a very good clean tight unmarked copy, becoming harder to find

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. First edition. NF/VG+. Hardcover book complete in its original printed dust jacket. 21 cm. 137 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. The book is in near fine condition. Previous owner's name/date written on the front loose end page. No other ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Moderate edge wear/tear, rubbing, soiling, spotting to the dust jacket.

NY: Macmillan. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ. With 27 full page & 14 in text photos.. 1936 (1922cp). Later edition.. Hardcover. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). Immaculate book. Slight spine cock BUT: stays tightly closed when stood on its spine. . Spine lettering a bit faded. Book text like new. Zero internal flaws. There are 27 full page plates from photos and 14 in text. Very nice DJ complete with $1.50 price. White DJ has aged a bit. Its edges & extrems a bit soiled. Minor edgewear in the form of 1/4" closed tears, but no chips. An unusual story, it has many ties to arctic exploration. Polaris wound up being the lead dog of Grenfell's (the Labrador doctor) personal dog team. .

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Baynes of the front endpaper. From the Preface: "Every incident described in this life of Polaris actually took place, and almost everyone is recounted exactly as it occurred. [Dogs] do not possess such [human] intelligence, they possess canine intelligence and this often serves them better, probably, than would our own." The forebears of Polaris were on Adm. Robert Edwin Peary Sr.'s mushing team to the North Pole. Peary was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. "Introduction" by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, who sailed the "Roosevelt" for Peary, and the "Karluk" for Vilhjjalmur Stefansson. Bartlett called Polaris "the finest Eskimo dog in the world." Ernest Harold Baynes [1868-1925] was an American naturalist. He was "the… Read More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early reprint (originally published in 1922). Illustrations from photographs by Louise Birt Baynes, John R. Baynes, and the author. Octavo. 137pp. Illustrated from photographs. Owner's name from a grade school, near fine in an attractive good plus dustwrapper with moderate chipping. Scarce in jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922 xiv, [4], 137pp, bound in green cloth, with binding and hinges tight. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to W. D. Vincent, with Vincent's bookplate. William D. Vincent (1866-1935) was a collector of books and bookplates, an amateur historian, with focus on the Pacific NW. From Spokane, Washington, he was President of the Old National Bank of Spokane 1920-1933. This is the true story of Polaris, a dog the author received from Admiral Peary, gathered off of Flag Island in Casco Bay, where Peary's dogs that had pulled him to the Pole were living, this being one of the pups.