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By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1877
Seller ID: 37489
Green decorated cloth. Small, oval color paper illustration on front board. Some bumping, light rubbing at spine extremities. Some bumping, wear at top rear corners; a bit of light bumping, wear at other corners. Some soil/spotting to rear board. Front board and spine quite clean; spine perhaps with just a bit of sunning. Pencilled gift inscription on front flyleaf. Endpapers quite foxed. Some foxing/freckling to page edges. A bit of light smudging, foxing to first and l... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: N.D.
Seller ID: 43950
No publication date; circa 1910. Picture of R. F. Scott as frontis and on front cover. Some bumping light rubbing at spine extremities and corners. Light surface rubbing. Tiny tear in cloth at top edge of front board. Very slight spine lean. Spine lettering completely faded. "Adapted from J. Kennedy MacLean's 'Heroes of the Polar Seas'".; 7 x 4-3/4"; 240 pages View more info
By: Andree, S. A.; Nils Strindberg; and K. Fraenkel (translated by Edward Adams-Ray)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1930
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 52756
Spine extremities light bumped. Spine very slightly sunned, and hint of sunning around the board edges. Else binding clean. Endpapers foxed / age-darkened. Topstain faded. Else pages clean. Chipping at the DJ spine head and corners, and a bit at the spine tail. Some age-darkening, rubbed surface soil to the DJ. ; 389 pages View more info
By: Ashton, James M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 44203
Just a bit of very light bumping at the spine extremities. A bit of rubbing to the spine gilt. Else binding quite clean. 1/4" tear on front endpaper at upper hinge. Endpapers appear somewhat age-toned. Else pages clean. B&W photographs. Fold-out map at rear. ; B&W Photographs; 235 pages View more info
By: Back, Captain
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart: 1837
Seller ID: 44205
Original binding; Paper covered boards, cloth spine with paper spine label. Four pages of ads at front. Folding map present. Wear at corners and spine extremities; some edgewear. Paper-covered boards foxed, with some rubbed soil. Some chipping to paper spine label, but barely touches lettering. Endpapers and first and last few pages quite foxed. Moderate foxing elsewhere. Fold-out map foxed, but there are no tears. ; B&W Illustrations; 456 pages View more info
By: Balchen, Bernt
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 57297
Light rubbing on spine extremities and board corners. Very light bumping on top tips of board corners. Small, faint smudge on front board. Else binding clean. Pages clean. DJ spine slightly sunned; lettering sunned from yellow to white. Some rubbing on DJ spine extremities and fold corners. Some light staining on DJ spine and panels. Light surface rubbing on rear DJ panel. ; B&W Photographs; 318 pages View more info
By: Barrow, John
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 38960
Hardcover. Facsimile reprint. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library label on front board and on spine tail. Light rubbing at extremities and edges. Else binding fairly clean. Pages clean, but for library markings. Fold-out map. 379 pages, plus 48 page appendix. ; Ex-Library View more info
By: Barrow, Sir John
Price: $70.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1846
Seller ID: 53408
Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Modern library re-binding in blue buckram. Both maps present; single sheet map bound near front instead of where called-for. Library markings on title page, page edges and front flyleaf. Else pages are clean, but for a bit of foxing. The fold-out map has been taped on the rear along one long edge, and a couple of other smaller pieces. Bit of foxing to the rear of the map, and a library stamp in the outer margin. ; 7" X 4.5"... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Eau Claire WI, F. L. Tronsdal: 1897
Seller ID: 27862
(1897). 1" loss, with tears at spine head. Some rubbing. Spine a bit sun-lightened (gilt lettering appears mostly unaffected) . Front hinge split. Pages just a bit age-toned; else pages clean. Also bound is same volume is "A Brief History of the Principal Earlier Arctic Explorarions", by John E. Read. ; B&W Illustrations; 531 pages View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chicago, IL, National Publishing Company: 1897
Seller ID: 44224
Attractive decorated binding. Light rubbing at the corners and spine extremities. Spine a bit sun-darkened; gilt somewhat faded. A bit of light soil at the bottom edges of the boards. Else binding quite clean. Front hinge starting. Foxing to the page edges and a bit to the front endpapers. Inked gift inscription (dated 1897) on the first blank. Else pages clean. ; B&W Illustrations; 531 pages View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The MacMillan Company: 1935
Seller ID: 44188
SD. NAP. Just a bit of light rubbing at the spine extremities and tips of corners. 1-1/4" x 1/4" stain on the rear board. Spine somewhat sun-darkened; lettering appears only slightly affected. Else binding clean. DJ blurb pasted on the front pastedown. Previous owners name and 1938 date inked on the front flyleaf. Small ding in page top edges. Else pages clean. ; B&W Photographs; 324 pages View more info
By: Douglas, M.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, DeWolfe, Fiske & Company: N.D.
Seller ID: 44220
No publication date; circa 1900. Decorated cloth. Some light foxing, spotting to front board; decoration/illustration still quite clean. Rear board soiled. Spine somewhat sun-darkened; lettering appears mostly unaffected. Front hinge cracked after flyleaf. Pages a bit age-toned. Color illustrations clean & bright. ; Color and B&W plates; 176 pages View more info
By: Ferguson, Robert; edited by Leslie Dalrymple Stair
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 1938
Edition: First US Edition
Seller ID: 44131
Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Rubbed spot at spine tail from label removal. Boards soiled, smudged. Bottom front corner bumped. Previous owners name inked on front flyleaf. Erasure on the title page. Library inkstamps. No dustjacket. ; B&W Illustrations; 216 pages View more info
By: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1909
Seller ID: 44186
NAP. Light surface rubbing. A bit of bumping at extremities. Else binding clean. VERY slight spine twist. Pages clean. ; B&W Photographs; 69 pages View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39424
Hardcover. Light bumping and rubbing to spine extremities. A few small stains on rear board. Else binding clean. Heavy pencil inscription (partially erased) on front flyleaf. Very faint dampstaining to bottom corners of pages. Bit of rubbed soil to page tops. Else pages clean. 2" tear and chip to bottom corner of rear DJ panel. Dampstaining to bottom DJ corners and edge. Light rubbing, with some tiny tears, to DJ edges. DJ spine and portion of front panel sunned. Som... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Orion Books: 1997
Edition: NAP
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 55498
Signed, with a general inscription, on title page. Tiny tear at spine head. Slight spine twist. Else binding clean. Page edges slightly yellowed. Else pages clean. Very light bumping on top DJ edge. Tiny closed tear on DJ spine head. Very light rubbing on DJ fold corners. Else DJ clean & bright. ; Color Photographs; 263 pages; Signed by Author View more info
By: Huish, Robert
Price: $240.00
Publisher: London, John Saunders: 1835
Seller ID: 53427
716 pages, plus plates. Two title pages; one engraved. Six plates at rear, frontis, and 1 map. There is no folding table. There is an appendix, but no supplement. Marbled leather. The book has been professionally repaired at some time in the past; the front board has been re-attached, and there are repairs to the spine head. Wear at the corners. The rear outer hinge is delicate, worn with some cracking, and 1/2" tear at the spine tail. Some wear along the spine. Some... View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: R. W. Bliss and Company: 1869
Seller ID: 52845
Leather bound. Wear at spine extremities and corners. Leather dry. Binding still solid. Endpapers rubbed, with some soil. Pencilled previous owners inscription on the second blank. Else pages clean. This is a fairly heavy book; Priority and/or International may require shipping over and above standard costs. ; 766 pages View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson: 1857
Seller ID: 53527
Volume 1 only. Rebound in blue buckram. Wrong author name gilt-stamped on spine. Illustrations; fold-out map present. Very light surface rubbing on cloth binding. Foxing, some dampstaining in the margins of the plates. Closed tear repaired with clear tape on last page of text. The fold-out map is age-darkened, with a 3/4" mostly closed tear at the edge of one fold. ; B&W Illustrations; 464 pages View more info
By: Lyon, G. F.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Coles Publishing Company: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 46843
Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library rebinding in blue buckram. Library label on front board and label residue on the spine tail. A couple tiny spots of soil on the boards. Else binding clean. Pages clean, but for library markings. Fold-out map. No dustjacket. ; 198 pages; Ex-Library View more info
