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FROM THE DEEP OF THE SEA: the diary of Charles Edward Smith, Surgeon of the Whale-ship Diana, of Hull. Edited by his son, Chalres Edward Smith Harris
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, c 1977. Facsmile reprint of the London: Blackie, 1922, edition, but dropping the folding map found in that edition. Octavo, black boards. pp (xii), 288. Fine in fine jacket, no owner names. Account of the whaler Diana which was trapped in the ice in the whaling grounds in Baffin Bay in 1866-7. Not all survived the ordeal, but she did sail back home.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40041More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
FROZEN IN TIME. Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition.
Edition: First edition
Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1988. Octavo, blue boards. (xii), 180 pp + colour plates. Black & white illustrations in text. Bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket. Anthropolgist Beattie and his team found and examined the frozen remains of some of the crew of the ill-fated Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin in 1845-48.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45598More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Frozen in Time: Unlocking the secrets of the Franklin Expedition
Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1988. Glossy card covers. pp (xii), (180) + colour photos. Index, bibliography. Corner crease to rear cover, VG otherwise. Story of the discovery of three frozen preserved sailors who perished in the high north on the Franklin Expedition. Grisly photos.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44652More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
GAC-CSPG. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC, Saksatoon, May 1973
Saskatoon, SK: Geological Association of Canada / Canadian Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1973. Octavo, black cloth gilt lettered. pp (vi), 368, (2); photos, charts, maps in text. Library discard, with evidence of removed labels at foot of spine, rubber stamps on endpapers, else a fine copy of this collection of 18 papers.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30882More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
GIVE ME MY FATHER'S BODY: the life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Edition: First Edition
Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. / Newmarket, Ontario: Blackhead Books, 1986. pp 275 + plates. Index. Fine.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44627More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
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 USD $22.50 -
HIGHWAY TO THE NORTH
London: Benn, 1956. Second printing. Green boards. pp (295) + plates, folding map. Couple of small light marks to covers, yellowing to page edges; ink owner name and 1 cm edge tear to front free endpaper; VG+ otherwise. Somewhat worn price-clipped jacket, good. Story of the author's trip along the whole length of the Alaska Highway.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44888More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HUDSON'S BAY TRADER
London & Toronto: Robert Hale / Nelson, Forster & Scott/General, 1978. Second edition (first was in 1951). Octavo, black boards. pp 188 + plates. Doube page map in text at front.. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a sticker scar to front panel, fine otherwise. Tweedsmuir was the son of the first Lord Tweedsmuir, popular author John Buchan.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36380More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
HUDSON’S BAY, or Every-Day Life in the Wilds of North America During Six Years’ Residence in the Territories of the Honourable Hudson’s Bay Company
Edition: First Canadian issue
Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1972. Red silk binding with gilt on black panel on spine. {2}, (xxiv), 328, illustrated. Facsimile reprint of the 1848 edition, with a new 10+ pp Introduction by George Woodcock. Tidy ink owner name at front, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has orange spine sunned to yellow, as often; crease to rear flap; check marks to titles on rear panel; VG otherwise. A classic of the Canadian North, about the early years of this popular boy's book author when he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42301More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
HUNTERS OF THE ARCTIC. Translated by Len Ortzen.
Edition: First edition.
London: Souvenir Press, 1969. Blue boards. viii, 260 pp + numerous photos on plates. Tan spots on bottom page edge, VG otherwise. Dust jacket has chips to corners and spine tips (fingernail-size chip affects two letters at foot of spine), price on front flap blacked out, else VG. Eskimos, Inuit.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 23584More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HUNTERS OF THE GREAT NORTH
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41999More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMOS: the unique record of a sportsman's year among the northernmost tribe - the big game hunting, the native life, and the battle for existence through the long Arctic night
Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1974. Facsimile reprint of the NY, 1910, original. Octavo, maroon cloth. pp [2], (2), xiv, 453, [5]. Many photos in text. Fine in fine price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42315More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
IN CANADA’S WONDERFUL NORTHLAND: A story of eight months of travel by canoe, motorboat, and dog team on the northern rivers and along the new Quebec coasts of Hudson Bay
Edition: First edition.
New York: Putnam’s, 1917. Dark blue illustrated cloth gilt, top edges gilt. Pp (xxiv), 344, (5, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard and other plates, folding map at rear. Ex library: lacking the front free endpaper; inner hinges repaired with rice paper; rubber stamp on title page; skinning to rear pastedown from removed label; spine lightly darkened with evidence of removed label; yellowing to page edges; else a good, clean and now tight copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30071More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
INTO THE YUKON...Second Edition
Cincinnati, OH: The Robert Clarke Company, 1905. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in black & white, gilt lettered, top edges gilt. pp xii, 13-324 + frontispiece + 60 plates + 2 maps. Ink name on verso of front free endpaper; bit of foxing to endpapers, first three leaves, and pages adjacent to some plates; corner crease to two leaves; yellowing to page edges; else a VG copy. First edition was in 1904 (312 pp). The author and his wife, from West Virginia, traveled to Dawson via the Canadian Pacific Railway and thence by steamboat from Victoria to Skagway and the upper Yukon in the summer of 1902, visiting mining camps and permanent settlements. Coming home they visited California, Arizona, and Colorado. Nice copy of an interesting and somewhat uncommon book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41817More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
IT'S ALL ADVENTURE
Edition: First US printing
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Red cloth, endpaper maps, red top edges. pp vi, 3-508 + frontispiece portrait and other plates. Spine very lightly darkened, else a fine, jacketless copy, no owner marks. Autobiography and adventures in Greenland by the great Danish adventurer and explorer. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50712More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
JOURNEY NORTH
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1957. Green cloth. pp (192) + plates. Narrow band of sunning at bottom of covers, else fine in VG (slightly rubbed) jacket. Author's experiences as the wife of a medical officer for two years on Baffin Island.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29426More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
KARLUK. A Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. New editon. Black boards. (xvi), 166 pp, indexed, plates inserted, maps in text. Fine in fine jacket, no owner names. Story of Stefansson's tragic Arctic expedition of 1913. Of a crew of 25, 11 died. The author was one of the survivors.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21925More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
KARLUK. The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson.
Edition: First UK printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43735More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
KARLUK. The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson.
Edition: First UK printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16078More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
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 USD $31.50