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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. New York: Norton, 1948. 1st edition. 229 pages.
Map. Photographs.
Experiences in Thule, Greenland. Very good hardcover in worn and frayed dust
jacket. #14036. $15
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Gould, Laurence M.
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.
Hardcover binding. Fair to good, covers spotted and worn, slightly faded,
fraying at top and bottom of spine. #14075. $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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (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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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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