shackleton ernest introduction john millard (2 risultati)

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condizione: Good Reading Copy. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. 1st UK Public Edition; Bluntisham Paradigm Gateshead, 1986. Original cloth covers in unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by John Millard, with a preface by Lord Shackleton. Contains the title leaf "A Giant Tick Was Investigating the carcass". DAMP DAMAGED staining, wrinkling, damage to covers and bottoms of some pages, not affecting text. Dust jacket damp stained, small pieces missing. A good readable copy of this hard to come by edition. This is the first Trade edition of the book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0948285060. ISBN/EAN: 9780948285066. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 408.

[Polar Exploration] FACSIMILE EDITION. Quarto (30 x 23cm), not paginated. A close facsimile of the original edition, printed on fine hand-made paper, with the lithographs and etchings by Marston. Quarter-bound in brown calf, blind-titled to spine, with bare wooden boards. All edges untrimmed. Complete with the introductory pamphlet in cream card covers, sewn. Number 7 of just 58 copies thus, hand-numbered to the limitation plate on the inside of the upper board. Presented in the original publisher's blue and brown cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles to a red morocco label. Internally fine, with some light wear to box. Near fine. A facsimile edition of the first book printed in Antarctica, in 1908, following a single type-written copy of 'The South Polar Times' produced by Shackleton six years earlier.