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Malaurie, Jean (Translated by Gwendolen Freeman) The Last Kings of Thule
New York Crowell 1956 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
The front endpaper bears a few brief notes regarding specific pages in the text, made by the previous owner. Else a fine copy and quite scarce thus. ; The author traveled in 1950 to Thule, Greenland where he lived for one year among the Polar Eskimos. He watched as their way of life began to come to an end with the construction of an American military base in their midst.
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Mawson, Sir Douglas The Home of the Blizzard (Two Volumes)
London Heinemann 1915 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine
The story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with maps. A nearly fine copy, missing one of three maps from the rear pocket of volume two. The silver decoration on the cover of Volume II, "Leaning into the Wind" is rubbed, but the same image on volume one is fully intact and bright.
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1750.00 USD
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Scott, Captain Robert F. The Voyage of the Discovery (Two Volumes)
London Smith, Elder & Company 1905 2nd Impression Hardcover Near Fine with no dust jacket
The full account of Scott's first Antarctic voyage 1901-1904. Includes 260 full-page and smaller illustrations by the expedition's physician and zoologist, Edward Wilson and others, nineteen coloured facsimile plates from Wilson's sketches, panoramas and maps. Boards lightly rubbed, minor foxing, bindings sound and square. An excellent copy overall.
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950.00 USD
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