The Adventure Of Wrangel Island

The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1926]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further fifty photographs, maps and reproductions, and a folding coloured map. Original publisher's green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Rubbed. Endpapers browned, armorial bookplate of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst to FEP The first English edition of an account of the ill-fated attempt to colonise Wrangel Island (1921-23) on… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. Hardcover. very good. 416pp. Octavo. Illustrated with plates from photos (including frontispiece) and folding coloured map at rear. Original blue cloth with black lettering on spine. Covers slightly rubbed with slightly faded spine. very good Vihjalmur Stefansson and crew were marooned on Wrangel Island nine months after their ship, the Karluk, was crushed… Read more about this item

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1925. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library, with green buckram binding, all other stamps and signs of ex-library. Book is original 1925 publication, map is folded and bound at back of book.

New York: Macmillan. Very Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 424 pages .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Stefansson's attempt to establish Wrangel Island as an Arctic island for a flying base, which ended in tragedy. 416 pages, gatefold color map of the northern hemisphere at rear, b/w photos and illustrations throughout. Covers loosening front and rear, spine ends worn, free endpages darkened.; 6 1/4 x… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. photos and engravings. Minor spine wrinkles; light cover rub; rear bookplate. Color folding map. Scarce Stefansson title, personal account of Wrangel colonizing expedition and tragedy. Out of print. Illustrated with photos and maps. Binding is cloth boards.

GB: Cape, 1926. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. DW (priced 18s net) has minor loss at spine ends and is browned over spine. Minor marks on its front cover. PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/G++ DW.

The Macmillan co. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. 1st edition. 8vo. xxviii,424pp. Illus., map. Fair book. No dust jacket. Front hinge cracked. Publication error: pp. 131-146 bound in twice; pp. 147-162 missing. (Otangel Island expedition 1921-1923, Wrangel Island, Arctic regions, discovery and exploration) Inquire if you need further information.