The North Pole
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xxxii, 1-373, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt border around a white and blue decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates (reproductions of photographs colored by hand), 31 double-sided plates (black and white photographs), a few full-page illustrations in the appendix, and a colored fold-out map bound in the rear. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. Arctic Bibliography 13230. Peary's narrative of his last expedition which took place in 1908-1909. The author discusses the expedition's organization, personnel, travels around the arctic, the ship the Roosevelt's passage through the ice of the Smith Sound-Robeson Channel, wintering at Camp Jessup, north Ellesmere island, hunting big game, and sledging. A very nice copy of Peary's travel narrative of the tundra. Near Fine. Item #000011707
Minor rubbing to the extremities and a touch of bumping to the corners.
Price: $400.00