Priestley, Raymond E

Antarctic adventure: Scott's northern party

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1915. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 382, [1]; black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 148 photographic illustrations on 97 plates; original blue pictorial cloth (minor soil spot to upper cover) stamped in silver, t.e.g.; frontispiece reinserted with some roughness to the fore-margin, front free endpaper excised, else a very good, sound and bright copy. The English edition was published in the preceding year but because many copies were destroyed in a publisher's warehouse fire, it is difficult to obtain. Rosove 256.A2; Spence 940. Item #43158

Price: $500.00