Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1958], 1958. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [5], 328, [4] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with maps and numerous photographs. The story of Fuchs and Hillary's trek across Antarctica. A Very Good book with mild fading to the..... More
Salem, Mass. Marine Research Society, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-66, [2], [pagination followed by tens of photograph plates of sailing ships], [2] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue buckram-textured cloth, spine lettered in gold. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated by a watercolor frontispiece, several in-text illustrations and..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-lxii, [2], 3-370 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited with a new introduction by Frederick Merk. Journal originally entitled..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-257, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontis photograph of the author, and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-xi, [1], 319, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fourteen additional plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to American biologist and naturalist Francis Harper, known for his..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-243, [3] pp. Orange cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine and a red band decorating the spine, red topstain. Volume illlustrated by several pencil drawings (drawings depict several famous churches and municipal..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1963], 1963. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vi-x, [2], 222, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several plates: black and white photographs, maps, and..... More