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H. F. & G. Witherby, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. this ex-library copy is tight and square with a clean unmarked text...usual library marks...

H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. First Edition. 209 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Blue pictorial dust jacket blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

London:: H.F. & G. Witherby,, 1959.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good plus copy in blue cloth boards with a hint of sunning to the top edges and a previous owner name on flyleaf in a Very Good plus unclipped dust j with light wear to the extremity and a damp stain along the bottom edge of the rear panel. Fridtjof Nansen was the first to cross Greenland and later succeeded in proving that an ice locked ship would drift with the ocean current as he crossed the Arctic Ocean. Edward Shackleton, himself no stranger to heroics of polar exploration, greatly admired Nansen and here writes affectionately and authoritatively of his Arctic hero.