[Rarebooks] FS - Shackleton, In The Heart of the Antarctic

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*SHACKLETON, E. H. /THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC Being the Story of the 
British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. /* *With an Introduction by Hugh 
Robert Mill, D.Sc. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic 
Pole by Professor T. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.* J. B. Lippincott Company, 
Philadelphia. 1909. Heavy 4to. Pagination: Volume I, pp. liv, 366; 
volume II, pp. xvi, 451 (plus three folding maps, and a panorama in a 
pocket at the end of this volume).

First published by Heinemann (London) in 1909, this is the first Amrican 
edition, and a separate printing from the British edition. All coloured 
plates, plates, diagrams, and maps present. The embossed design in 
silver to the front boards (taken from photo), showing three members of 
the expedition standing next to the British flag, is still remarkably 
clean, unscraped and bright. The lettering and designs to the spines are 
similarly bright, although there is a trace of scuffing to the spine of 
volume II. The bottom corners of both volumes are bumped. There is a 
small white discolouration to the blue cloth at the base of the rear 
board of the second volume. The gilt to the top edge of both volumes is 
bright and unscraped. Both volumes carry the ornate bookplate of John J. 
Albright, on which is written "To Mary N. Schmiedendorf (?)". On the 
lower right of both front pastedowns, on the rear endpapers, and on the 
blank side of two maps and the panorama is a rubber stamp of "The Higher 
Thought Digest book department, Buffalo, N.Y." The contents are 
exceptionally clean and bright. The binding is strong. A handsome set in 
good plus, to very good, condition. See Spence 1098 (incorrectly showing 
three volumes - it should be two).

Price: $575.00

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to prior sale. Payment by check or credit card. Known institutions may 
be invoiced. Postage and packing charge is $15 in North America; $25 
overseas. Returnable within seven days of receipt if not as described.

 
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