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A TENDERFOOT WITH PEARY. With a Preface by G.W. Melville...With Forty-Six Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. Second Edition
New York: Stokes, c1911. Second printing. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, brown, and white, gilt lettered, pp xvi, 317, (3) + frontispiece with tissue guard + 16 plates (most double-sided) + folding map at rear. Spine lightly darkened, with gilt lettering just a little dulled, slight flaking to the white snow shoe, mild rubbing at ends, and publisher's imprint flaked away; yellowing to page edges; nice woman's bookplate at front; otherwise a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. AB 2022. "Account of Peary's North Pole Expedition 1908-9 by the youngest member, who was with one of the support parties during the first stage of the march and a sledge journey with MacMillan along the northern coast of Greenland."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 36350More details Price: USD $75.00 -
ACROSS THE TOP OF RUSSIA
New York: David McKay, 1967. Octavo, blue cloth. (viii), 374, (2) pp. Fine copy, no names. Price-clipped jacket has small tears, VG. The cruise of the USCGC Northwind into the polar seas north of Siberia.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31031More details Price: USD $18.50 -
ALASKA, the Great County. New Edition with New Matter
New York: Macmillan, 1923. Later printing of the 1917 second edition, enlarged (first was in 1908). Blue decorated cloth stamped in white and gilt. pp xii, 583 + colour folding map at front, plates; indexed. Minor rubbing to spine tips, yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29449More details Price: USD $30.00 -
ARCTIC
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. Light pinkish cloth, endpaper maps. Fine in VG jacket. A novel of the arctic by a Danish author who worked in the Canadian North. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29964More details Price: USD $15.00 -
ARCTIC ISLAND HUNTER
Edition: First edition.
London: George Ronald, 1961. Octavo, brown cloth. pp 136 + plates. 2 maps in text. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has light rubbing to front panel else fine, flap price intact. The experiences of a hunter in Spitzbergen.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36404More details Price: USD $18.00 -
COMPASS OF THE WORLD: A Symposium on Political Geography
New York: Macmillan, 1945. Second printing (first was in 1944). Inscribed by Stefansson in ink at front "Dear Ray, This is a book which I helped to edit and for which I wrote two of the chapters. Stef. September 17, 1947". Octavo, reddish-brown cloth. pp (xviii)), 466. Light sunning at foot of spine, else a fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has chips and tears, internal repairs, good. One chapter on the north polar region.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31445More details Price: USD $75.00 -
GREEN SEAS AND WHITE ICE
New York: Dodd, Mead, c1948. 5th printing. Octavo, blue cloth. pp xvi, 287 + plates. Yellowing to page edges, light rubbing at spine ends, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has small chip, nicks, and rubbing at spine ends; short tears to rear panel; VG otherwise. Inscribed and signed by the author with an Eskimo greeting to a good friend. Sailing in the Arctic with her husband Capt. Donald MacMillan. Labrador, Baffin Island and Greenland.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36362More details Price: USD $25.00 -
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC; performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty;s ships Hecla and Griper...with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations....
New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Facsiimile reprint of the 1821 original. Thick quarto, brown cloth. pp (8), (xxxii), 310 + (2), (clxxxii) [Appendix), xii, (132) [North Georgia Gazette]. [4] + 2 large folding maps + 18 plates on text paper. Brown spots to inner margins of free endpapers and title page (from binding glue, as usual), else a fine copy, no owner names (not issued in jacket). One of the great Arctic books. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40190More details Price: USD $95.00 -
Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope
Edition: First edition.
University of Toronto Press, 1979. Green printed cloth. [16], 314 pp, indexed, photos and map in text at front. Partially removed label of the University of Toronto Press Design Department on front free endpaper, else a VG+ copy, no owner names or text marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25573More details Price: USD $35.00 -
LUTIAPIK
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975. Beige boards. pp 237, [3], map in text. VG in lightly used VG jacket. Story of public health nurse Dorothy Knight's year among the Eskimo (Inuit).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30352More details Price: USD $15.00 -
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON PERMAFROST, 17 and 18 April 1962. Technical Memorandum No. 76. [With] A REVIEW OF PERMAFROST INVESTIGATIONS IN CANADA. Technical Paper No. 146 of the Division of Building Research
Edition: First edition.
Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada Associate Committee on Soil and Snow Mechanics, January, 1963. Quarto, grey printed card covers, navy blue cloth spine, stapled binding, pp. 231 + 9 (Appendix), richly illustrated throughout with maps, charts, graphs, and black & white photos. Light fraying to spine ends with a 1 cm tear at both head & heel, staple puncture at top edge of upper cover, else a very good, clean, tight copy. Loosely inserted is A REVIEW OF PERMAFROST INVESTIGATIONS IN CANADA by R.J.E. Brown. Published in Ottawa, December 1962. Reprinted from The Canadian Geographer vol. VI, nos. 3-4, pp. 162-165. Cream printed wrappers, stapled binding, Fine, clean copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 29391More details Price: USD $30.00 -
REPORT ON THE DOMINION GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION TO HUDSON BAY AND THE ARCTIC ISLANDS ON BOARD THE D.G.S. NEPTUNE 1903-1904. (The Cruise of the Neptune)
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29990More details Price: USD $150.00 -
Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land...International Polar Expedition [at head]
Edition: First separate edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 27648More details Price: USD $650.00 -
THE CRUISE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT: Explorations and Hunting in the Alaskan and Siberian Arctic. In which the Sea-Scouts have a great adventure
Edition: First printing
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, black cloth gilt, endpaper maps. pp (2), (xvi), 317. Many photos in text. Yellowing to page edges; soft bumps to outer corners of covers; else a fine, bright & tight copy, no owner names, no flaking to the cover gilt. An expedition through the Bering Stait to Port Hope and Wrangel Island. Borden Field Museum 1927 Alaska Arctic Expedition, endorsed by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In search of brown bears, polar bears, walrus, and seals. AB 1978. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31428More details Price: USD $50.00 -
THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF THOMAS SIMPSON The Arctic Explorer.
Toronto: Baxter, 1963. First of this edition. Quarto, grey leatherette stamped in gilt, endpaper maps, in grey cloth slipcase. [5], (xviii), 204 pp + frontispiece portrait and two folding maps at rear. Ten page introduction by the editor John Gellner. A fine copy. #216 of an unspecified limitation, signed by the publisher and the editor. Third volume in the publisher's Canadian Heritage Series. Written by his brother and first published posthumously in 1845. Simpson was a Hudson's Bay Company employee who travelled from the Red River to Athabasca in 1836-37, returning during the winter of 1839-40, mapping previously unmapped territory. .
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21939More details Price: USD $65.00 -
THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
Edition: First edition.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1975. Blue cloth. (xii), 288 pp + plates; map in text, indexed. Very nearly fine in very nearly fine price-clipped jacket, no owner names. A history of the search for the North-West Passage through five centuries.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25209More details Price: USD $15.00 -
THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.
Edition: First US edition
New York: Macmillan, 1975. Navy cloth. (xii), 288, [4] pp. Double-page map in text, 8 double-sided plates inserted. Fine copy. Jacket has a one inch tear to front panel, else fine. An overview of the various attempts to find an Atlantic to Pacific sea route through the Canadian Arctic.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11195More details Price: USD $15.00 -
THE VOYAGE OF SEMEN DEZHNEV IN 1648: BERING'S PRECURSOR. With selected documents.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26366More details Price: USD $25.00 -
THREE YEARS OF ARCTIC SERVICE. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26474More details Price: USD $125.00