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Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony
Edition: First edition
Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. pp xviii, 390. Photos, maps, index. Fine in fine jacket. 1.3 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51690More details Price: USD $34.95 -
War, Ice & Piracy: The Remarkable Career of a Victorian Sailor
Edition: First UK edition
London: Chatham Publishing, 2000. Red boards. pp 192 + plates, index. Fine in fine jacket. Includes a chapter on Captain James Ross' Franklin Search Expedition aboard the H.M.S. Investigator 1848-53 with Cresswell acting as mate
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51601More details Price: USD $18.95 -
Where the mountain falls
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto / London: Nelson, Foster & Scott / Robert Hale, 1977. Dark blue boards. Ink owner name at front, extensive pencil notes to first page of text in a tiny hand, mostly in the top margin, else fine. Dust jacket has yellowing and soft rippling to rear panel, VG+ otherwise. A novel set in an Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49213More details Price: USD $11.95 -
Whiteout
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Greey de Pencier Books, 1988. White boards. Fine in fine jacket. A novel set in the Canadian Arctic - Baffin Island.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49246More details Price: USD $14.95 -
WINDFLOWER. Translated by Joyce Marshall
Edition: First edition in English
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Light blue boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a one inch tear to front panel internally repaired, light spine yellowing, VG otherwise, flap price intact. A novel about a young Eskimo woman in the Canadian North who gives birth to a blonde, blue-eyed son.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48848More details Price: USD $19.95 -
WINDFLOWER. Translated by Joyce Marshall
Edition: First edition in English
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Light blue boards. Ink ownership name of important Canadian poet Miriam Waddington, light sunning to extreme tips of spine, else fine. Dust jacket has light yellowing to spine and panels, mainly fine otherwise, flap price intact. A novel about a young Eskimo woman in the Canadian North who gives birth to a blonde, blue-eyed son.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25522More details Price: USD $24.95 -
WINNER LOSE ALL. Dr. Cook and the Theft of the North Pole.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. Octavo Cloth & boards. (xvi), 346, [6] pp. Photos in text. Fine copy. Jacket has slight rubbing; nicks and small chips to spine tips; VG otherwise. The book advances the case that Cook beat Peary to the pole and that the charges that he was a fraud were wrong.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 11616More details Price: USD $14.95 -
WINNER LOSE ALL. Dr. Cook and the Theft of the North Pole.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. Octavo Cloth & boards. (xvi), 346, [6] pp. Photos in text. Fine copy. Jacket has slight rubbing; nicks and small chips at foot of spine, near fine. The book advances the case that Cook beat Peary to the pole and that the charges that he was a fraud were wrong.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51629More details Price: USD $14.95