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HARD BACK BLUE. Condizione: FAIR. covers rubbed, some spotting to pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1952 EDITION: 336.

Condizione: Fair. 1951. First Edition. 336 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Foreword by Sir Reginald Leeper. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

1st edition. 8vo. 336pp. B/w. illustrations from photographs. Some occasional foxing. Original boards. Pictorial blue d/w. lettered in white, rubbed and torn with loss. Ex-libris Ann Savours Shirley with her signature. US$12.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 336pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, twenty-nine black and white maps, photographs and reproductions and one multi-panel fold out map. Cloth lightly marked in places and with a touch of chafing to several extremities. Some browning to the final text leaf. Former owner name inked to the head of the half-title. A very crisp and bright copy. No dust wrapper.

1st edition. 8vo. 336pp. B/w. illustrations, 2 maps folded as one, e.p. maps. Original blue cloth. Pictorial blue d/w. lettered in white, rubbed to edges with some slight damp marks, edges reinforcec with tape on verso of wrapp. US$17.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 336pp., index, biblio., notes, photos, maps (one folding), endpaper maps. Previous owner's stamp inside front, very light wear; jacket has some frayed edges, nicks, and other wear.

First Edition. Tall octavo, blue cloth, spine embossed with silver lettering, 336 pp., endpapers illustrated with maps, 12 double-sided black-and-white plates, one fold-out map and three appendices included. Spine ends and edges of cover a little rubbed, binding split at leaf 256 but holding firm, foxing on endpapers, very light foxing on leaves throughout, small cream Robertson & Mullens Ltd. sticker on inside lower-right edge of front cover; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A general history of the Antarctic up to 1950, and an explanation of the political dispute of the late 1940s between Great Britain, Argentina and Chile over the area of the Antarctic continent located south of South America. Written by a former staff member of the British Embassy, Buenos Aires, who served at the time of the dispute.

Condizione: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original aqua paper covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 336 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Spine ends turned-in, creasing of the board to the lower front corner, 100 mm split to the paper of the upper front gutter. Good condition book in torn and repaired dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. POLAR [Antarctic].

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. None (illustratore). A compelling historical and political study concerning ownership of certain parts of Antarctica, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. This work outlines the history of the ownership of Antarctica, as well as the contemporary disputes regarding possession.Illustrated with full plates and a folding map.With an unclipped dust wrapper.From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice Back. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey for many years. He spent eight winters in the Antarctic and is a descendent of Captain George Back. In addition, he served as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations. His library collection was built over decades and highlights his love of polar exploration.Loosely inserted are a number of photographs taken by Kenn Back, of the 'John Biscoe' off Horseshoe Island, and of Montevideo. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart, with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine. The front flap of the dust wrapper is split in two; otherwise, it has some chipping to the head and tail of the spine and other general wear. Ownership bookplate to the verso of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.