ARCTIC MANUAL de Vilhjalmur Stefansson - 1945

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First reprint, in cloth boards. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author. No dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

Prepared under direction of the Chief of the Air Corps
Fifth printing
Inscribed to previous owner by author -- "Inscribed to Keith Baker by Vilhjalmur Stefansson at the suggestion of their friend Alan Cooke, 10 January 1962"
dustjacket is torn & worn; blue cloth covers; page edges have foxing

NY: MacMillan. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth presentation copy inscribed to the ffep by Stefansson: "For Colonel James F. Mitchell Jr. From Vilhjalmur Stefansson May 8 1944." Laid in is a TLS signed by Stefansson to Mitchell regarding sending him this book, with the same date. Foxing to covers and endpages. The DJ in mylar is browned to spine, chipped to edges with losses under 1" depth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 556 pages .

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. iv,280;iv,281-536 pp. Duodecimo. Two volumes bound in one. Maroon buckram with gold gilt lettering stamped to the front board and spine. This copy once belonged to Stefansson's assistant, Olive Rathburn Wilcox, with her name stamped to the front board in gold gilt--though incorrectly spelled--and a lengthy inscription from Stefansson to Wilcox on the ffep. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Some very light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, otherwise a near fine copy. This edition, produced by the United States Army, is far rarer than the trade edition that was published a few years later. Stefansson, presumably, had this copy specially bound for his assistant, Olive Rathburn Wilcox, and wrote a wonderfully candid note to her in it where he refers to her as his "co-author" and states that "this seems to be the fourteenth book we have done together". A truly unique copy. 1940