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New York & London: J. B. Lippincott & William Heinemann, 1909. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Complete set, though mismatched as to publishers. Original cloth hard covers with titles and illustration blocked in silver. Top edges gilt. Volume I covers moderately worn, with old owner's name inside and inner hinges cracked but holding. Volume II covers worn and faded, and cracked here and there along spine edges. Tanning to edges and endpapers of both volumes. Otherwise still a neat set, with sound bindings. All plates present in each volume, as well as the folded panoramas and three map sheets in the rear pocket of Volume II. liv,366;xvi,419pp..

J.B. Lippincott Company. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0.

J. B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcovers. pictorial blue cloth. Vg+ condition. Spine pictorial inset on Volume I rubbed. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Bindings square and tight, with no separation at endpaper seams. Pocket map present, rear, Volume II. A very nice copy of this iconic title.

London: William Heinemann,, 1909. With the elusive dust jackets First trade edition, first impression, with the scarce dust jackets remarkably well-preserved. Shackleton's account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9 (Nimrod) was reviewed on publication by the Manchester Guardian as "the best book of polar travel which has ever been written". The sledge expedition to the south magnetic pole "was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole" (ODNB). In September 1908 David, MacKay, and Mawson set out for the magnetic pole. The group was weighed down by two sledges carrying heavy equipment and provisions that were man-hauled in relay. Both David and Mawson fell into a crevasse on the journey out and only narrowly escaped death. They reached the magnetic pole in… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1909. Ernest Shackleton here tells the quite remarkable story of the British Antarctic expedition of 1907 to 1909. Shackleton and his men made it to within 97 miles of the South Pole, experiencing along the way every hardship possible, then returning to their wooden ship before the ice crushed it. "A more interesting book of polar exploration . . . has yet to be written" (New York Times Book Review).

London: William Heinemann. 1909. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles and illustration in silver to the upper board and titles in gilt to the spine, in original dustwrappers. Top edges gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece to each volume; 12 colour plates after paintings by George Marston, all with captioned tissue guards; four double-page photographic plates, 271 photographic illustrations on 195 plates; diagrams, maps, plans and graphs in the text, including nine full-page. Also three folding maps and one folding plate containing two panoramic views in end-pocket of vol. II. A near fine set, the bindings square, firm and bright with a hint of fading to the very tips of the spine and board edges. The contents, with a touch of tanning to the endpapers, are otherwise remarkably clean and fresh throughout and remain free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very near fine… Read More