Nansen Unknown - 1940

New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Artzybasheff, Boris. First edition. No jacket. Boards and page ridges foxed, bookplate remains on front endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. 170 pp. Fridtjof Nansen, (born October 10, 1861, Store-Froen, near Kristiania [now Oslo], Norway—died May 13, 1930, Lysaker, near Oslo), Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895–96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910–14). For his relief work after World War I he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace (1922).

New York, NY: Junior Literary Guild and the Viking Press, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boris Artzybasheff. 165 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. Title page states 1940 publication. The copyright page state First Published In March 1940. No later printing history offered. This copy is bound in light olive colored boards with greenish-blue type face on the spine and image on the front board. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.