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Petrow, Richard.
Across the Top of Russia.
New York: McKay, 1967. 1st printing. 374 pages. Map. Photographs.
The cruise of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Northwind into the polar
seas north of Siberia. Good cloth-covered hardcover binding in poor dust
jacket. #11218. $17.50
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Putnam, George P.
Andree: The Record of a Tragic Adventure.
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. 1st printing. 239 pages. Photographs. Young adult.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #11278. $35
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Putnam, George Palmer.
Mariner of the North: The Life of Captain Bob Bartlett.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. 1st edition. 246 pages.
Good hardcover binding, lower part of front cover slightly scratched, in
chipped, worn and torn dust jacket--lower part of front and spine of dust
jacket missing. #11279. $60
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Quartermain, L. B.
South to the Pole: The Early History of the Ross Sea Sector,
Antarctica.
Foreword by Sir Raymond Priestley. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. xx,
481 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Frontispiece map.
Folding map of Coastal Area from Victoria Land to Queens Maud Range. Endpaper
maps.
Exlibrary. Call number on spine, stamps on top and bottom edges, pocket on
inside rear flyleaf. Good hardcover in good dust jacket protected by clear
library acetate cover. #23213. $60
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Savishinsky, Joel S.
The Trail of the Hare: Life and Stress in An Arctic Community.
New York: Gordon & Breach, 1978. 2d edition, corrected. 255 pages. Illustrations.
Photographs. Library of Anthropology.
A study of the Hare Indians, Colville Lake, N.W. Territory. Good hardcover in
fair dust jacket. ISBN 0677041403. #11413. $22.50
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Scholes, Arthur.
Seventh Continent: Saga of Australasian Exploration in
Antarctica, 1895-1950.
New York: British Book Centre, 1950? 226 pages. Maps. Photographs.
Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #11431. $30
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Scott, J. M.
Portrait of an Ice Cap with Human Figures.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1953. 173 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
A member of the 1930 British Arctic Air Route Expedition, led by Gino Watkins,
recounts a year's life in Greenland while establishing a weather station. Good
hardcover in fair dust jacket. #11443. $20
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Society Expeditions.
Bridging the Bering Strait aboard the World Discoverer.
No place: Society Expeditions, 1998. Eight sections with separate pagination
(total 91 pages). Illustrations.
Sections: Historical Overview, History of an Ancient People, Land Mammals,
Avifauna, Flora, Earth Sciences, Destination Profiles (Bering Sea and Arctic
Regions, Gulf Coast and Southeast Regions). Very good stiff pictorial wrappers
(soft cover) with plastic spiral binding. Small colored felt-tip mark on top
edge. #24943. $20
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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.
Northwest to Fortune: The Search of Western Man for a
Commercially Practical Route to the Far East.
Maps designed by James MacDonald. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. 1st
edition. 356 pages. Endpaper maps.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #11569. $7.50
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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.
Ultima Thule: Further Mysteries of the Arctic.
Illustrated by Alexander Popini. New York: Macmillan, 1940. 1st printing. 383
p. Maps. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, spine worn. #11570. $45
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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.
Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic.
Introduction by Stephen Leacock Telling How This Book Came to Be Written. New
York: Macmillan, 1939. 381 pages. Maps. Signed presentation copy by Stefansson.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, spine sunned, edges rubbed. #11571. $95
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Steger, Will.
North to the Pole.
New York: Times Books, 1987. Unrevised proofs. 344 pages. Typed Letter Signed
laid in from a Times Books editor to author Peter Matthiessen.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0812917049. #11572. $17.50
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Streeter, Daniel W.
An Arctic Rodeo.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 2d impression. 356 pages. Illustrations. Map.
Very good cloth-covered hardcover binding in Good dust jacket. #11602. $20
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Talcott, Dudley V.
Report of the Company. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings
by the Author.
New York: Smith and Haas, 1936. 1st printing. Square 8vo. 347 pages. Illustrations.
Decorated cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #11633. $20
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Thuronyi, Geza T., Editor.
Antarctic Bibliography, Volume 8.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1976. Small 4to (medium-large book). v,
500 pages. Includes Author, Subject, Geographic, and Grantee Indexes. Prepared
by the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Office of Polar Programs, National
Science Foundation.
Good hardcover. Exlibrary, label on spine, stamp on flyleaf and title page.
#18002. $7.50
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Thuronyi, Geza T., Editor.
Antarctic Bibliography, Volume 9.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1978. Small 4to (medium-large book). v,
495 pages. Includes Author, Subject, Geographic, and Grantee Indexes. Prepared
by the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Office of Polar Programs, National
Science Foundation.
Good hardcover. Exlibrary, label on front cover, stamp on flyleaf and title
page. #18003. $7.50
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Thuronyi, Geza T., Editor.
Antarctic Bibliography, Volume 10.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1979. Small 4to (medium-large book). v,
498 pages. Includes Author, Subject, Geographic, and Grantee Indexes. Prepared
by the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Office of Polar Programs, National
Science Foundation.
Good hardcover. Exlibrary, bel on spine, stamp on flyleaf and title page.
#18004. $7.50
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Turley, Charles.
The Voyages of Captain Scott. Retold from The Voyage of the
Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition.
Introduction by Sir J. M. Barrie. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1915. 440 pages. Maps.
Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, spine and edges worn. #11748. $45
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Vanderlip, Washington B., As Narrated By ... and Herin Set
Forth by Homer B. Hulbert.
In Search of a Siberian Klondike.
New York: Century, 1903. 315 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Worn. Fair. #11820. $47.50
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Victor, Paul-Emile.
Man and the Conquest of the Poles.
Translated by Scott Sullivan. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. 1st printing.
320 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Review copy with promotional materials laid in. Very good hardcover in Very
good dust jacket. #11830. $17.50
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Welzl, Jan.
The Quest for Polar Treasures.
Introduction by Bedrich Golombek and Edvard Valenta. Translated by M. and R.
Weatherall. New York: Macmillan, 1933. 1st printing. 352 pages. First published
in Czech in 1930.
Good hardcover, backstrip partially detached; bookplate inside front cover.
#25332. $35
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Whitman.
With Admiral Byrd in Little America.
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman, 1934? Square 12mo (small book). 91 pages. Photographs.
Good pictorial hardcover, edges worn. #11982. $20
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Wright, Helen S.
The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration from the
Earliest Times to the Discovery of the Pole.
New York: Macmillan, 1910. 1st edition. 489 pages. Illustrations. Map. Portraits.
Decorated cloth-covered hardcover binding. Covers stained, else Good. #12013.
$30
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