New York: Paragon House, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, sticker remnant on rear jacket panel, boards lightly foxed.
xix, 250 pp. Examines the exploits of the explorer Frederick A. Cook and offers new evidence supporting his claim to discovery of the North Pole.
![Item #2348043 The Wonders of Alaska, with Illustrations and Maps [Illustrated]. Alexander Badlam](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2348043.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740332843)
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1890. Taber, I.W. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rear board soiled, minor wear to corners, front hinge weakening, 1/2 inch chip from front free endpaper corner.
viii, [5], 152 pp. Mint green cloth, black and gilt titles and decorations, decorated endpapers. Illustrated with eight.....
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor wear to corners, hinges just beginning to weaken. Binding square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xi, 352, 9 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, black illustrations on spine and.....
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Board corners bumped and rubbed, ink gift note on front endpaper.
x, 267 pp. "Features juveniles who discover a Lost Race of Vikings in Alaska." "John Ernest Bechdolt (1884–1954) was an American short story writer, novelist.....
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label and light spots to boards, foxed throughout, Oxford bookstore bookplate on front endpaper.
xi, 493 pp. 8vo. 24-page publisher catalog bound in following text. Originally published in two volumes.....
Paris: Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1802. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed throughout.
xxiv.....
Sydney: Reed Books, 1982. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
125 pp. Traces the history of the development of the natural resources of Antarctica and discusses the importance of the preservation of the continent's wilderness areas.
Toronto: Pagurian Press Limited, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rear jacket faintly rubbed.
126 pp. Includes color plates and B&W drawings. A diary of a wildlife artist's three week voyage with an arctic traveller to Bathurst and Ellesmere Islands. Includes numerous color plates and black & white sketches.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Advance Reading Copy. Trade Paperback.
Advance Reading Copy. Page ridges lightly foxed.
297 pp. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for excellence in natural history in 1994. The winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award surveys the history of the Antarctica Peninsula, from.....
![Item #2330548 Lifelines through the Arctic [Life Lines]. William S. Carlson](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2330548.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742396997)
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and tears. Page base soiled.
xiv, 271 pp. Account of the building and manning of the transport routes, air routes, and radar warning system in the Arctic, as part of.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. Half-Leather.
Includes map, complete with no tears or stains. Appears to have been custom-bound for R.O. Moon (his name in gilt on spine base, many blank leaves following map). Spine and corners rubbed.
32 pp. 8vo. Red leather spine and corners, red cloth boards, gilt.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Hinges just beginning to weaken, 4 inch closed tear to folding map, righthand portion of map split along seam, but map is complete.
xv, 465 pp. Fold-out map follows text, four maps and 48 plates in text. Elliott.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. Franck, Harry A. [Alverson]; Pont, Charles. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, portion of owner bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, front flyleaf lightly foxed (probably due to proximity to bookplate).
xiv, 306 pp. Beige cloth, blue titles.....
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rebound library copy (green buckram, gilt titles and rules) with usual marks. Boards rubbed.
xii, 316 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece photographic plates (29 total). Memoirs of a female-led big game hunting expedition in Alaska. Arctic Bibliography 7007: "Story.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. Hard Cover.
1880 date stated, possibly 1884 printing (see below). Corners exposed, owner sticker on front board, pencil gift note on front endpapers,
xi, [12]-400 pp. Red-orange cloth, gilt and black titles with black illustrations of totem pole, dogsled, and kayak on spine.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, originally published in 1959 in England as Because It Is There. Lacks jacket. Spine faintly toned.
viii, 215 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout. Lowe was part of Hunt's Everest expedition in 1953, as well as Fuch's.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rebound in library buckram with new endpapers.
xlvi, 347 pp. 12mo. Circumpolar map precedes text, engraved frontispiece, engravings in text. Extensive index follows text. A history of Arctic expeditions beginning with King Arthur's voyage to Iceland and spanning thirteen.....
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor wear to corners, ink name and date on front endpaper, two light creases to corner of folding map.
xiv, [2], 330 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Folding map of Alaska follows text, illustrated with black-and-white photographic frontispiece and.....
New York: The Century Co., 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine toned.
xvii, 235 pp. Front board illustrated with an whale and a compass rose. Photographs by the authors. Includes frontispiece and 31 photographic plates. Endpapers illustrated with the North and South Poles. A tale of whaling in.....
New York: A. Wessels / The Premier Press, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (precedes 1910 Wessels & Bissell edition mentioned in Arctic Bibliography by one year). Minor wear to corners, endpapers very faintly foxed.
379 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, black rules, black-and-white totem pole illustration on front.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Boards soiled, prelim torn out, one plate torn, pencil scribbles on at least one page.
369 pp. With 34 illustrations, mostly from photographs loaned by the American Museum of Natural History. A story featuring.....
London: Strahan and Spottiswoode, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Rebound in library buckram. Minor tape repairs to fold-outs, expected transfer, otherwise an exceptional set.
lxix, 265, [2]; 258 pp. 8vo. Two fold-outs (one of Davis' Strait and Baffin's Bay, one depicting.....
Chicago: J.S. Ziegler & Company, 1897. Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover.
Enlarged edition. Boards heavily rubbed and faded, free endpapers removed, front matter a bit foxed, ink and pencil names and date on front blanks, pages toned.
x, 555, [5] pp. Illustrated with 36 plates and 8 maps.Arctic Bibliography 3110: "Enlarged.....
Chicago: J.S. Ziegler & Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards heavily rubbed (common with this book for some reason), a few tiny spots on fore edge, endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
xii, 413, [5] pp. Illustrated with 36 plates and.....
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Binder's copy. Boards loose from text block, two owner bookplates on front endpapers, light stain on top edge of first two pages.
xvi, [12], 440 pp. Includes fold-out map, black-and-white photographic frontispiece and plates (48 total). A history of.....