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New York:G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. New York:G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1925. 1st edition. xv+290pp. Illustrated with 75 photographs and 2 folding maps. Hardcover.  Ex-library with only mark a large stamp, directly over title on title page. Green boards rubbed, soiled and worn, with wear to all edges. Spine ends worn with a tear to the bottom edge. Edge points bumped. Internally, end pages lightly soiled but pages free of previous owners marks or signatures.  Paper is slightly age-toned, with an occasional smudge scattered throughout. All plates present as called for. Larger of the folding maps has a small tear where attached.  The binding is holding, but cracked at the dedication page (with title page starting to pull away), as well as the rear hinge. Overall, a good solid copy. *Frank Hurley was the Official Photographer of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.

G. P. Putnam's Sons (The Knickerbocker Press),, New York, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xv, 290 pages, photographic end papers, 2 folding maps, 75 illustrations, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut, Original covers in photocopied (now scarce) Dust jacket. Shelf wear, spine softening, titles dulled, bumped, slightly marked. Discrete book club label to rear end paper and some old price annotations. Previous owners signatures to front end paper in pencil, front end paper splitting at hinge, text block clean and sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1920s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 840. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

New York: G P Putnam's Sons. G+ : in good condition plus without dust jacket. Light staining to lower corner of boards.Teg. Contents VG. 1925. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 290pp. B/w illustrations and maps. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. Hurley, Frank. 8vo., xv, 290 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, 75 illustrations, which include b&w plates from photographs, and 2 folding maps, pictorial endpapers, t.e.g. Publisher's dark green cloth, slight rubbing to the lettering on the spine, with the slightest of wear to the crown; slight scratch to the front board. A nonauthorial gift inscription on the first blank flyleaf reads: "To / Theron T. Chapman / This story of an astounding / adventure is also an interesting/ reminder of the ship loads / of whale meat you and I / have brought up from / South Georgia Island. / G. A. Chapman / Christmas 1937." The text, plates and maps are fine and bright. A very good to near fine copy. Frank Hurly (1885 - 1962) an noted Australian, was the photographer on the Mawson and Shackleton expeditions. Presentation from George A. Chapman to his son, Theron T. Chapman, the year he assumed became chairman of the board of Scott, Foresman & Company,… Leer más

G. P. Putnam's Sons (The Knickerbocker Press),, New York, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Good. 1st Edition; xv, 290 pages, photographic end papers, 2 folding maps, 75 illustrations, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut, Original covers in photocopied (now scarce) dust jacket. Previous book sellers number on front end paper, otherwise contents clean, minimal shelf wear, a very nice copy. Hurley was the photographer on the ‘Endurance’. Spence 615. Hurley, an absolutely superb photographer, went South with both Shackleton and Mawson. Hurley raised expedition photography to a new level. He did not make routine photos of explorers posing in the snow. Instead, he often focused on the snow itself, or on grim snowscapes that became beautiful in his compositions. These scenic studies he integrated into the documentation of the expedition. Spence 615, Renard 768, Conrad p. 205. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic &… Leer más

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition of Hurley's appreciation of the two principal figures of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 75 plates and maps. Provenance: from the Arctic and Antarctic collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald with his library plate to the pastedown. In near fine condition.

New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. 8vo. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, photographic endpapers; pp. xvi, 290; 75 photographic plates, 2 maps; a little darkened on spine, cloth mimally marked, else a very good copy, ownership inscription to front fly-leaf. First edition. Hurley accompanied both Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) and Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Expedition (1914-17), during which time he took some of the most memorable Antarctic photographs of the era. The book has become scarce. Provenance: Brian Birley Roberst was a British polar researcher, ornithologist and instrumental in the development of the Scott Polar Research Institute. In 1934 he had joined he joined the three-year British Graham Land Expedition to the Antarctic led by John Rymill. Spence 615; Renard 768; Rosove 178.A1.