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Ada Blackjack: A true Story of Survival in the Arctic


Niven, Jennifer

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Hardcover. Deckled edges. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30737


Price: $15.00 

 

Adrift on an Ice Pan


Grenfell, Wilfred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 69 pages. Gray cloth. Tanning to end pages. Dust jacket worn around edges with repair marks. Frontispiece portrait of Grenfell.

Record # 220827


Price: $13.00 

 

Adrift on an Ice-Pan


Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801


Price: $60.00 

 

Antarctic Environments and Resources


Hansom, James

Softcover. Prentice Hall, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages, with illustrations and charts. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456628


Price: $45.00 

 

Antarctica


Porter, Eliot

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Small stain at bottom edge of front cover. Full color photographs by Eliot Porter. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 53480


Price: $26.00 

 

Appalachia June 1947 Magazine Number 103


N/A

Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 289-432, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Mount Saint Elias, Bushwhacking in the Adirondacks, Twenty Years of White-Water Canoeing, Seaplane Cruise to the Canadian Arctic, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407253


Price: $25.00 

 

Appalachia June 1961 Magazine Number 132


N/A

Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 289-432, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Climbs in the Cordillera Real, Historic Huts of the Antarctic, The Shape of New England Mountains, A Snowshoe Trip in 1924, Logging Railroads of the White Mountains, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407313


Price: $20.00 

 

Arctic and the Antarctic, The - What Lives there


Huntington, Lee Pennock, Illust. by: Murray Tinkelman

NY, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Murray Tinkelman. Dust jacket with spine fade, light edgewear, closed tears.

Record # 502568


Price: $15.00 

 

Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman With Franklin, 1819-1822 (Rupert's Land Record Society Series)


Back, George

Hardcover. US, Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 1st, 1994-11-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 403 pages. Ex-library copy with usual markings, stickers and stamps. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463044


Price: $31.00 

 

Arctic Birds of Canada


Snyder, L. L ., Illust. by: T. M. Shortt

Hardcover. Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, rep, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 310 pages. Front fly leaf missing. Black & white illustrations by T. M. Shortt. Light rubbing to spine and corners. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 508430


Price: $20.00 

 

Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture


Waterman, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, photographs in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear, scuffing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457076


Price: $15.00 

 

Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter, The


Porter, Russell Williams

Hardcover. Charlottesville, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages, b&w and color plates of sketches and paintings by Porter throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451846


Price: $75.00 

Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909, TheBerton, Pierre

Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909, The


Berton, Pierre

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, reprint , 1988, Book: Good, 672 pages. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Includes chronology and b&w map. Foxing to top and fore edge. Foxing to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466893


Price: $19.00 

 

ARCTIC JOURNEY. Paintings, Sketches, and Reminiscences of a Vanishing World.


Buerschaper, Peter

Hardcover. Toronto, Pagurian Press Limited, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Illustrated with 20 full color, 2 full page and numerous black and white drawings throughout the text. Introduction by Terence Michael Short. Royal 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine. Color pictorial dust jacket with light edgewear and very minor browning around edges.

Record # 219816


Price: $13.00 

 

ARCTIC JOURNEY. Paintings, Sketches, and Reminiscences of a Vanishing World


Buerschaper, Peter

Hardcover. Toronto, Pagurian Press Limited, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 126 pages. Illustrated with 20 full color, 2 full page and numerous black and white drawings throughout the text. Introduction by Terence Michael Short. Royal 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Review copy stamp on front fly leaf and unused bookplate. Color pictorial dust jacket with sp,e edgewear and foxing. Large tear in back and some creasing around foot of spine. Good.

Record # 219973


Price: $11.00 

 

Arctic Prairies, The


Seton, Ernest Thompson

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages, B&W photos. Account of a 2,000 mile canoe journey to the Arctic Circle. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Corners slightly worn, previous owners signature on front fly leaf, gilt on spine slightly faded, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 304397


Price: $100.00 

 

Arctic Son


Craighead George, Jean, Illust. by: Wendell Minor

New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Wendell Minor. Unpaginated. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 205367


Price: $15.00 

 

Arctic Trader - The Account of Twenty Years with the Hudson's Bay Company


Godsell, Philip H.

New York, G. P Putnam, 1st , 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages, B&W photos, end paper maps. Visible water stain to top edge of about 50 pages, just affecting margin.

Record # 304863


Price: $15.00 

 

Artic Wolf, The - Living With the Pack


Mech, L.David

Hardcover. Stillwater, MN, Voyageur Press, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Foreward by Roger Caras

Record # 57381


Price: $35.00 

 

Aurora Australis


Shackleton, E. H.

Shrewsbury UK , Airlife, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, One color, other B&W illustrations. Facsimile of book published in Antarctica in 1908 by the British Antarctic Expedition. Introduction by Mary Goodwin.

Record # 220983


Price: $20.00 

Barren lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American ArcticKrajick, Kevin

Barren lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic


Krajick, Kevin

hardcover. New York, Times Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469598


Price: $19.00 

 

Bering's Search for the Strait - The First Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1730


Kushnarev, Evgenii G. and E.A.P Crownhart-Vaughan (Ed)

Hardcover. Portland, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white maps.

Record # 106119


Price: $15.00 

 

Beyond the Barrier with Byrd


Adams, Lt. Harry

Hardcover. Chicago, Donohue, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, the story of the Byrd Anartic Exploring Expedition by the Chief Officer & Navigator

Record # 11581


Price: $38.00 

 

Black Sunlight: A Log of the Arctic


Rossman, Earl

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Orange spine with black lettering. Clean, unmarked copy with sun fading to spine. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470929


Price: $25.00 

 

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places


Streever, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456565


Price: $10.00 

 

Cruise of the Northern Light, The - Exploration and Hunting in the Alaskan and Siberian Arctic


Borden, Mrs. John

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Black & white photos. Map end papers. Black cloth with gilt design.

Record # 68373


Price: $50.00 

 

Discovery - The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition


Byrd, Richard E.

Hardcover. NY, Putnams, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white plates. Spine fade otherwise bright clean copy

Record # 57114


Price: $50.00 

 

Discovery of the World, The


Bettex, Albert

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, a coffee table book of the great explorers from Marco Polo to discovery of the Antarctic.Extra shipping charge.

Record # 6815


Price: $50.00 

 

Emperor Penguins


Rivolier, Jean

Hardcover. London, Elek Books, reprint, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 131 pages, with b&w photographs throughout. Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing. Very minor spotting throughout. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852497


Price: $18.00 

 

Empire of Ice, An: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science


Larson, Edward J.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, First Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Navy boards with silver titles to spine. 16 pages of photographs in black & white & addiitonal bw illustrations throughout. Crisp, clean dust jacket. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages, a very nice copy.

Record # 751448


Price: $13.00 

 

End of the Earth: Expeditions To South Georgia and Antarctica


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and scratching to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 452939


Price: $10.00 

 

End of the Earth: Voyages To Antarctica


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. US, National Geographic, 1st, 2003-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, color photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463720


Price: $10.00 

 

Eskimo and His Art, The


Ritchie, Carson I. A.

New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 205931


Price: $25.00 

 

Eskimo Art


Burland, Cottie

Hardcover. London, Hamlyn, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs and drawings. Slight fading to edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604215


Price: $10.00 

Eskimos, TheBirket-Smith, Kaj

Eskimos, The


Birket-Smith, Kaj

Hardcover. London, Methuen, Revised Ed., 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 262 pages, front end paper map, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and there is pencil underlining to many pages.

Record # 411671


Price: $23.00 

 

Eskimos


De Poncins, Gontran

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 105 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Gontran de Poncins. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along edges - Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610883


Price: $31.00 

 

Finding the North Pole


Morris, Charles

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W. E. Scull, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Illustrated plates. 8vo. Color pictorial cloth, gilt. Spine worn. Minor soil spotting to cover. Green end papers.

Record # 220878


Price: $26.00 

 

First at the North Pole or Two Boys in the Arctic Circle


Stratemeyer, Edward

Hardcover. Boston, Lathrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages plus 12 pages of ads. Hardcover. Features 8 black & white illustrations by Charles Nuttall. Some pinhead sized holes along inside front cover hinge. Illustrated covers with light rubbing to corners, spine. Foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611074


Price: $25.00 

 

Forgotten Peoples of Siberia, The


Mayer, Fred

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, color photos throughout by Mayer. Edited by Gunther Doeker-Mach. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 850630


Price: $40.00 

 

Forty Years for Labrador


Grenfell, Sir Winfred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, slightly faded on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402205


Price: $20.00 

 

Fourteen Men - The Story of the Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island


Scholes, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st , 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white photos. 314 pages. Covers with spotting, fade to spine. Dj with edgewear, fraying.

Record # 61452


Price: $15.00 

Friendly Arctic, The (New Edition)Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Friendly Arctic, The (New Edition)


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 2nd, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 812 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers bound in green fabric, gilt title on spine and front cover. Voyage maps included in envelope attached to inside of back cover. Some edgewear to covers with a touch of fraying, but mostly to spine. In good condition considering its age. Edges yellow with age, but still clean inside.

Record # 30747


Price: $50.00 

 

Frozen Treasure, The - :A Tale of Arctic Russia


Lampen, C. Dudley, Illust. by: Harold Piffard

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 248 pages. Black & white illustrations by Harold Piffard. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Light soiling to a few pages. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Spine darkened. Corners bumped, rubbed. Chipping to spine.

Record # 503624


Price: $13.00 

 

Giotto La Cappella Degli Scrovegni


Carra, Carlo

Softcover. Milano, Italy, Collezione Silvana, 1st , 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white plate illustrations. Stiff covers. Chipping to light brown wrapper over covers.

Record # 801812


Price: $10.00 

 

Gold of the Snow Geese, The


Knight, Peter

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1st UK, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Paul Knight. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612481


Price: $31.00 

 

Great North, The


Bellotti, Felice

Hardcover. London WI, Andre Deutsch, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. B/W photographic plates in center of book. Translated from Italian by James Cadell. Orange cloth, gilt. Tight, clean, unmarked.

Record # 803856


Price: $8.00 

Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic SurvivalMawson, Douglas

Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival


Mawson, Douglas

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light fraying and small tears on edges, internal gutter crack on title page, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Record # 471886


Price: $25.00 

 

Howling Arctic, The


Price, Ray

Hardcover. Toronto, Peter Martin Associates, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket in clear plastic protective cover.

Record # 510589


Price: $9.00 

 

Hunters of the Arctic


Frison-Roche, Roger

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, photographs by Pierre Tairaz. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 808235


Price: $15.00 

 

Ice Master, The: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk


Niven, Jennifer

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. In great condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30734


Price: $15.00 

 

Iceland - The First American Republic


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 275 pages.

Record # 58486


Price: $18.00 

 

Iceland - The First American Republic


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 1/2" tear to cloth top of spine otherwise

Record # 56135


Price: $18.00 

 

In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic


Norman, Howard

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages, with press release laid-in. Slight dust jacket edge scoff, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455908


Price: $12.00 

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS JeannetteSides, Hampton

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette


Sides, Hampton

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470284


Price: $19.00 

 

Last of the Arctic, The


Kurelek, William, Illust. by: William Kurelek

Hardcover. Toronto, Pagurian Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Kurelek. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 110045


Price: $18.00 

 

Loneliest Continent, The - The Story of Antarctic Discovery


Chapman, Walker

London, Jarrolds, 1st English, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, including index. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 175897


Price: $15.00 

Lost Fleet, The: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic DisasterSongini, Marc

Lost Fleet, The: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster


Songini, Marc

Hardcover. New York, 1st, July 24, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451739


Price: $15.00 

Man Who Ate His Boots, The: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest PassageBrandt, Anthony

Man Who Ate His Boots, The: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage


Brandt, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471672


Price: $15.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. LVIII July - December 1930 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415560


Price: $44.00 

Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples [2 volumes]Pritzker, Barry M.

Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples [2 volumes]


Pritzker, Barry M.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, ABC-CLIO, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 868 pages. Hardcovers with dust jacket. Volume 1: Southwest, California, Northwest Coast, Great Basin, Plateau. Volume 2,: Great Plains, Southeast, Northeast Woodlands, Subarctic, Arctic. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copies with only minor wear to dust jackets.

Record # 468706


Price: $75.00 

 

Never Cry Wolf


Mowat, Farley

Hardcover . Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 247 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, chipped, soiled.

Record # 62910


Price: $10.00 

 

Nimrod in the North or Hunting and Fishing Adventures in the Arctic Regions


Schwatka, Frederick

Hardcover. NY, Cassell Pub. Co., Rep., 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages, black & white illustrations. Pages browning, shaken copy, hinges cracked.

Record # 68370


Price: $51.00 

 

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole


Fleming, Fergus

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear/-rubbing, soiling to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 452945


Price: $10.00 

North to the PoleSteger, Will

North to the Pole


Steger, Will

hardcover. London, Macmillan, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center, light fading to cover edges, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469630


Price: $10.00 

 

Northland Bird Life, The


Snell, Roy J.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, illustrated by Cobb X. Shinn. Worn covers and corner bumps, light pen mark on title page, water damage in rear endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854034


Price: $12.00 

 

Open Polar Sea, The - A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States"


Hayes, Isaac I.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, Reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & spine. Gilt and black printed decorations & titles. Toning throughout. 16 illustrations in b/w. Frontis illustration, A Bear Hunt, by Darley. Decorative chapter tail-pieces drawn on wood from photos, sketches & engraved by J. A. Bogert. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tear to p. 327. Clean copy. Distinctive covers & spine.

Record # 750402


Price: $38.00 

 

Peary - The Explorer and the Man


Weems, John Edward

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 362 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 207636


Price: $12.00 

 

Peary - The Man Who Refused to Fail


Green, Fitzhugh

NY , Putnams, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. 20 B&W plates, map on end papers. ex-lib with bookplate on front end paper, light stamping, light clear tape repair to gutter between frontis and title page, otherwise very good

Record # 300724


Price: $30.00 

 

Polar Atmosphere Symposium: Part 1 Meteorology Section


Sutcliffe, R.C. & K. Weekes (Eds)

Hardcover. London, Pergamon Press, 1st , 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Published for and on behalf of the Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development. Vol 1, the Meterology Section. There was a second volume on the Ionospheric Section, not offered here.B&w illustrations including fold-out map. Aside from ex-lib stamps, pocket, tight, clean.

Record # 11062


Price: $25.00 

 

Polar Exploration


Croft, Andrew

London, A. E. C. Black, 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, 22 B&W illustrations, 8 maps. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping.

Record # 304307


Price: $20.00 

 

Romance of Labrador, The


Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages, b&w plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to corners. Front hinge weak. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850959


Price: $30.00 

 

Sacred Hunt - A Portrait of the Relationship Between Seals and Inuit


Pelly, David F.

Seattle, Univ. of Washington Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Color, black & white illustrations.

Record # 502968


Price: $15.00 

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and TragedyCrane, David

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy


Crane, David

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st (USA), 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 572 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In good shape. From the back cover: "The first biography to take equal measure of all parts of its subject's life... Renders Scott's ultimate, legendary fate yet more heartbreakingly tragic."

Record # 30409


Price: $23.00 

 

Snow Man - John Hornby in the Barren Lands


Waldron, Malcolm

Paperback. New York, Kodansha, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Paperback.

Record # 204837


Price: $15.00 

 

Snow Man - John Hornby in the Barren Lands


Waldron, Malcolm

Paperback. New York, Kodansha, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Paperback.

Record # 204836


Price: $15.00 

 

South: Man and Nature in Antarctica


Billing, Graham

Great Britain, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st UK, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 207 pages. Guy Mannering illustrations editor. Color and black & white illustations. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 511125


Price: $10.00 

 

Stefansson - Prophet of the North


Hanson, Earl Parker

New York, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. B&W photos.

Record # 305466


Price: $25.00 

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Alex AwardsCox, Lynne

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Alex Awards


Cox, Lynne

Hardcover. New York, 1st, January 13, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 323 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket, two stickers on front cover, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451089


Price: $20.00 

Tent Life in SiberiaKennan, George

Tent Life in Siberia


Kennan, George

Softcover. Salt Lake City, UT, Gibbs Smith, Reprint, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Softcover. Light foxing to textblock edges. Smudging to top edge of text block. An otherwise clean copy with edgewear.

Record # 471567


Price: $13.00 

 

The birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica


Batchelor, John Calvin

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 401 pages. Dust jacket with edge wear, light chipping. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450825


Price: $15.00 

The Coldman Cometh: A Family's Adventure in the Alaska BushDurr, Bob

The Coldman Cometh: A Family's Adventure in the Alaska Bush


Durr, Bob

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Light wear/scratching to dust jacket. Nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 452938


Price: $12.00 

The Top of the WorldGall, Alice and Fleming Crew

The Top of the World


Gall, Alice and Fleming Crew

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Standard wear and tear, otherwise clean and tight copy. Illustrations by Nils Hogner, plates and drawings throughout.

Record # 2230515


Price: $25.00 

 

Thirty Years In the Golden North


Welzl, Jan

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, transl by Paul Selver, forward by Karel Capek, 1st pub in Czech 1930

Record # 11112


Price: $10.00 

 

To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821


Houston (Ed.), C. Stuart

Hardcover. Mintreal, McGill-Queen's Univ., rep., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The journal & paintings of Robert Hood, midshipman with Franklin. Previous owner's bookplate. Black and white color plates, Rubbing, edgewear to dj otherwise

Record # 55806


Price: $60.00 

 

To the Ends of the Earth - Four Expeditions to the Arctic, the Congo, the Gobi, and Siberia


Perkins, John

NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 photographs taken by the American Museum of Natural History in the early 1900's. Commentary by Perkins. 184 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 67821


Price: $30.00 

 

To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechett


Gough, Barry M.

Hardcover. Cambaridge, Hakluyt Soc., 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The journal of Lt. Goerge Peard of HMA "Bloosom" 1825-1828. Fold-out map.

Record # 55803


Price: $45.00 

Trap-Lines North: A True Story of the Canadian WoodsMeader, Stephen W.

Trap-Lines North: A True Story of the Canadian Woods


Meader, Stephen W.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very minor wear on cover, otherwise clean and tight condition.

Record # 33527


Price: $75.00 

 

Whaler's Eye


Ash, Christopher

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 136 pages. Contains some black & white photography. Some discoloration to endpapers. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling

Record # 503709


Price: $8.00 

Where The Earth EndsHarrison, John

Where The Earth Ends


Harrison, John

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. illustrated with section of full color photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611151


Price: $25.00 

 

White Bear - Encounters With the Master of the Arctic Ice


Feazel, Charles T.

hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos 240 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Dust jacket price clipped, front flap with crease.

Record # 64648


Price: $18.00 

 

White Bear


Feazel, Charles T.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st t, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Encounters with the master of the Arctic ice.

Record # 54904


Price: $15.00 

 

World's Great Adventure, The: With the Story of Polar Exploration for One Thousand Years


Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston , 1st, 1930, Dust Jacket: Fair, 384 pages, color maps on endpapers, color frontispiece, illustrated color plate on front cover, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, front hinge loose. Acetate-protected dust jacket. Some wear and chipping under acetate.

Record # 803163


Price: $16.00 

 

Writing on Ice - The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur/Gisli Palsson (Editor)

Hardcover. Hanover, University Press of New England, First Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Grey cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. 15 pages of full page, full color illustrations & additional photos in black & white throughout. Bright dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750919


Price: $31.00 

 

Yukon Alone - The World's Toughest Adventure Race.


Balzar, John

NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Map end papers.

Record # 200148


Price: $9.00 

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