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Giaever, John. In the Land of the Musk-Ox: Tales of Wild Life in North - East Greenland. London: Jarrolds, 1958. 1st edition. 191 pages. Photographs. Very good hardcover in frayed and chipped dust jacket. #14026. $27.50
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Gilberg, Aage. Eskimo Doctor. Translated by Karin Elliott. Illustrated with photographs by the author. New York: Norton, 1948. 1st edition. 229 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece Map. Experiences in Thule, Greenland. Very good hardcover in worn and frayed dust jacket. #14036. $5
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Gilberg, Aage. De Noordelijkste Dokter ter Wereld. Vertaald door J. E. Gorter-Keyzer. Den Haag: Ad. M. C. Stok, Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1949. 178, [2] pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. This was translated from the Danish into English as Eskimo Doctor. Text in Dutch. Very good cloth-covered hardcover. Front dust jacket panel is pasted inside front flyleaf. Name in ink on flyleaf. #17973. $27.50
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Gosling, W. G. (William Gilbert). Labrador: Its Discovery, Exploration, and Development. New York: John Lane, 1911. xii, 574 pages. Index. Photographs. Maps. Folding map. Pages unopened. Good hardcover; spine title nearly faded, top of backstrip frayed and torn, rear hinge starting. #27205. $125
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Gould, Laurence McKinley. Cold: The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey. With 47 illustrations from photographs by the author, 2 maps and 2 color reproductions of paintings by David Paige. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. ix, 275 pages. Index. Photographs. Maps (including folding map). Illustrations. Photographic endpapers. Frontispiece. 'My story is concerned primarily with the sledge journey to the Queen Maud Mountains and the things that led up to it. Since these had their beginnings in March 1929 with the loss of the Fokker plane in the Rockefeller Mountains my story opens with an account of our adventures on that enterprise.' - Foreword. Very good hardcover, rear flyleaf chipped. #27153. $17.50
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Gould, Laurence M. The Polar Regions in Their Relations to Human Affairs. New York: American Geographical Society, 1958. 54 pages. Folding map. Series 4. Hardcover binding. Good. #14076. $22.50
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Grenfell, Wilfred T. Labrador: The Country and the People. New York: Macmillan, 1909. 1st printing. xii, 497 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendices: 'Insects of Labrador,' by Charles W. Johnson and John Sherman, Jr. 'The Marine Crustacea,' by Mary J. Rathbun. 'The Mollusks,' by Charles W. Johnson. 'List of the Mammals of Labrador,' by Outram Bangs. 'List of the Birds of Labrador,' by Charles W. Townsend and Glover M. Allen. 'List of Crustacea on the Labrador Coast,' by Mary J. Rathbun. Good pictorial hardcover; front cover edge slightly worn, rear cover stained, front hinge starting. #27202. $15
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Haig-Thomas, David. Tracks in the Snow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. 292 pages. Maps. Photographs. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #15234. $65
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Hall, Thomas F. Has the North Pole Been Discovered? An Analytical and Synthetical Review of the Published Narratives of the Two Arctic Explorers, Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Civil Engineer Robert E. Peary, U.S.N. Boston: Badger, 1917. 539 pages. Diagrams. Charts. Maps. Tables (partially folding). Map in rear pocket. Stamped on flyleaf: Compliments of the Author. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good, label removed from lower spine. #14142. $190
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Harrowfield, David L. Sledging into History. Foreword by R. W. Richards. Auckland: Macmillan Company of New Zealand, 1981. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 119 pages. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper color photographs. Signed on title page by the author. The purpose of this book is to present a descriptive and pictorial record of Captain Scott's three huts on Ross Island and their contents as they are today. 'I hope by setting down my personal reminiscences, observations and impression from a memorable five weeks' visit to Antarctica during the summer of 1977-78, I will make more widely known the unique contribution made by the New Zealand Government's Antarctic Division and volunteer members of the New Zealand Antarctic Society.' - Introduction. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0333301307. #25093. $100
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Hayes, Isaac I. An Arctic Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1854. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. 375 pages. 2 folding maps. Buckram with cover illustration. Covers fair, contents Good. #14179. $100
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Hayes, J. Gordon. Robert Edwin Peary: A Record of His Explorations, 1886-1909. London: Richards & Toulmin, 1929. 229 pages. Frontispiece. Photographs. Map in rear pocket. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good, spine sunned, some foxing. #14180. $35
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Healy, M. A. (Michael A.), John C. Cantwell, Samuel B. McLenegan, and Charles Haskins Townsend. Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. 4to (large book). 102 pages. Frontispiece. Plates and folding plates. Maps and folding maps. Diagrams. 49th Congress. 1st session. House Executive Document, 153. Contents: 'General report of operations of vessel for the protection of the seal fisheries and sea-otter hunting grounds,' by M. A. Healy. 'Narrative account of the exploration of the Kowak River, Alaska,' by J. C. Cantwell. 'Exploration of the Noatak River, Alaska,' by S. B. McLenegan. 'Notes on the natural history and ethnology of northern Alaska,' by C. H. Townsend. Good hardcover. Full calf leather with restored spine, some page edges and rear folding map have leather burns. #27210. $160
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Herbert, Wally. A World of Men: Explorations in Antarctica. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 1st American edition. 232 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #14205. $17.50
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Hertling, Knud, et. al. Greenland: Past and Present. Copenhagen: Henriksen, 1970? Folio (very large book). 370 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Good hardcover in torn dust jacket. #12606. $15
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Houston, James. The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga. Drawings by the author. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. 1st printing. 275 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Signed by Houston on half-title page. Fiction. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0151961158. #14281. $22.50
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Hunter, Martin. Canadian Wilds: Tells about the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Columbus, Ohio: A. R. Harding Publishing Co., 1907. 12mo (small book). 277 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. The author entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commission officer of twenty years' standing. A collection of articles first published in 'Forest and Stream and 'Hunter-Trader-Trapper.' - Introduction. Very good pictorial hardcover. #27199. $20
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Iglauer, Edith. The New People: The Eskimo's Journey into Our Time. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966. 1st edition. 205 pages. Map. Endpaper maps. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #14320. $17.50
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Joerg, W. L. G. Brief History of Polar Exploration Since the Introduction of Flying: To Accompany a Physical Map of the Arctic and a Bathymetric Maps of the Antarctic. New York: American Geographical Society, 1930. 50 pages. Illustrations. 2 folding maps. Spec. Pub. no. 11. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover) in slipcase. #14366. $62.50
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Joerg, W. L. G., editor. Problems of Polar Research: A Series of Papers By 31 Authors. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 479 pages. Diagrams., Photographs. Spec. Pub., no. 7. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover), edges sunned. #14367. $37.50
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Leising, William A. Arctic Wings. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. 1st edition. 335 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Autobiography of a missionary priest in Northwest Territory. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #14519. $20
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Lynch, Jeremiah. Three Years in the Klondike. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Chicago: Donnelley, 1967. 12mo (small book). 375 pages. Photographs. Lakeside Classics. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #14588. $17.50
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MacMillan, Donald Baxter. Etah and Beyond, or Life within Twelve Degrees of the Pole. Photographs by the author. Foreword by Gilbert Grosvenor. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. 1st printing. xix, 287 pages. Index. Photographs. Maps. Frontispiece portrait. Narrative of Commander MacMillan's exploration beyond the Arctic circle in 1923 and 1924. Very good hardcover, spine title partially faded; parts of dust jacket pasted on blank front flyleaves. #27203. $12.50
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Manley, Seon, and Gogo Lewis. Polar Secrets: A Treasury of the Arctic and Antarctic. Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. 355 pages. Photographs. Reinforced hardcover library edition. Good, in slightly worn dust jacket. (This is not a library copy.) #14617. $17.50
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Marsh, George. Toilers of the Trails. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., 1921. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 245 pages. Illustrations. Cloth-covered hardcover binding with pictorial paper label. Edges and covers slightly worn, else Good. #16249. $40
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Mear, Roger, and Robert Swan. A Walk to the Pole: To the Heart of Antarctica in the Footsteps of Scott. With research and additional material by Lindsay Fulcher. New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. 1st American edition. xiii, 306 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. Endpaper maps. Review copy, review slip laid in. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. ISBN 0517566117. #20700. $12.50
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Members of the Expedition. The Voyage of the Chelyuskin. Translated by Alec Brown. New York: Macmillan, 1935. Large 8vo. 325 pages. Map. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #11862. $47.50
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Miller, Max. Fog and Men on Bering Sea. Photographs by A. E. Harned and George Olsson. New York: Dutton, 1936. 1st edition. 271 pages. Map. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, spine sunned, covers slightly soiled, small tear in top of backstrip. Internally sound. #10995. $47.50
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Mirsky, Jeannette. To the North! The Story of Arctic Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present. Introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. New York: Viking Press, 1934. 1st printing. xx, 386 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Folding map. Good hardcover in frayed, chipped and slightly torn dust jacket; hardcover is slightly stained and discolored; front hinge weak. #27207. $12.50
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Mittelholzer, Walter. By Airplane towards the North Pole: An Account of an Expedition to Spitzbergen in the Summer of 1923. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. 176 pages. 48 Illustrations. 4 maps (partially folding). Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Pages unopened, spine sunned, corners worn, else very good. #15624. $160
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Money, Anton, with Ben East. This Was the North. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975. 1st printing. 244 pages. Photographs. Map. The author arrived in Alaska in May 1923 and worked, traveled, and later settled in Frances Lake region in Yukon Territory. Good hardcover in dust jacket covered by acetate and pasted won; Exlibrary: call number on spine, stamps, etc. ISBN 0517518929. #27173. $12.50
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Montague, Sydney R. I Lived with the Eskimos. New York: McBride, 1939. 1st edition. 222 pages. Photographs. Endpaper map. RCMP service in Baffinland. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #11023. $27.50
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Moss, Sanford, Text. Natural History of the Antarctic Peninsula. Illustrations by Lucia deLeiris. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Small square 4to (medium-large book). 207 pages. Index. Illustrations. Good hardcover in good dust jacket. Crease in front paste-down, some damp wrinkling of lower edges of pages. ISBN 0231062680. #20307. $20
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Mountevans, Adm. Lord. Man against the Desolate Antarctic. New York: Wilfred Funk, 1951. 172 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Very good hardcover in worn and torn dust jacket. #11061. $17.50
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Mudge, Z. A. (Zachariah Atwell). Arctic Heroes: Facts and Incidents of Arctic Explorations from the Earliest Voyages to the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin, Embracing Sketches of Commercial and Religious Results. New York: Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1875. 12mo (small book). 304 pages. Illustrations. On front cover: The Larch Series. Fair hardcover, spine ends slightly torn and worn, small dent in lower front cover, edges slightly rubbed. many pages browned. #27200. $22.50
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Mudge, Z. A. (Zachariah Atwell). Fur-Clad Adventurers; or, Travels in Skin-Canoes, on Dog-Sledges, on Reindeer, and on Snow-Shoes, through Alaska, Kamchatka, and Eastern Siberia. New York: Phillips & Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe, 1880. 12mo (small book). 342 pages. Illustrations. Fair hardcover, spine ends slightly worn and frayed, edges and corners rubbed, front hinge starting, lacks rear flyleaf. #27196. $35
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Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram': 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. (2 volumes). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 2 volumes (x, 527; x, 714 pages). Photographs. Color plates. Maps. 4 folding maps in front and rear cover pockets of volume 1. Frontispiece portrait. Appendix in volume 2: 'Report of Captain Otto Sverdrup on the Drifting of the 'Fram' From March, 14, 1895. Very good decorative hardcover volumes. Top edges guilt. #27198. $400
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Neatby, L. (Leslie) H. Conquest of the Last Frontier. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1966. xvi, 425 pages. Index. Maps. Photographs. Endpaper photographs. A book about 19th century Arctic exploration. Very good cloth-covered hardcover. #18294. $17.50
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Nordstrom, Ester B. Tent Folk in the Far North. Translated from the Swedish by E. Gee Nash. London: Jenkins, 1930. 1st printing. 255 pages. Photographs. Teaching in a Swedish Lapp summer school on Lake Tarfallajauri, describes nomadic Lapp tribal life. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, covers and spine sunned. #11130. $70
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Ommanney, F. D. Below the Roaring Forties: An Antarctic Journal. New York: Longmans, Green, 1938. 1st edition. 308 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #11158. $47.50
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Owen, Russell. South of the Sun. New York: Day, 1934. 1st edition. 228 pages. Owen was a New York Times correspondent with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good, spine and edges faded. #11175. $30
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