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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.; Octavo 0771079788
Book ID: 29964More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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.
Book ID: 40190More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
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.
Book ID: 29391More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land...International Polar Expedition [at head]
Edition: First separate edition
Book ID: 27648More details Price: USD $650.00 USD $585.00 -
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.; Octavo 0436520486
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 25209More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE POLAR PASSION. The Quest for the North Pole. With Selections from Arctic Journals.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967. Grey cloth, tan endpapers. (303) pp, index, numerous illustrations in black and tan. Small soft bruises to outer corners of covers; remains of a label inside front cover; VG+ otherwise. Jacket has chips and tears, internal repairs, just good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple signature, no inscription). ; Tall quarto; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55567More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
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.
Book ID: 11195More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THREE YEARS OF ARCTIC SERVICE. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North
Book ID: 26474More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50