The Catalogue of the Collection of Joseph T. Tower, Jr. Class of 1921 in the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Harvard University.

Boston: Privately printed by Daniel B. Updike, Merrymount Press, 1933. First edition. 25 cm; vii, 184 pages. Title printed in red and black. Pagination includes about 50 pages numbered and with running title "Gifts Supplementing the Collection," but otherwise blank. Bound in original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with image of polar compass points. Edition limited to 110 copies. Fine condition.

The Joseph T. Tower, Jr., Collection is the result of years of interested effort by the late Joseph T. Tower, Jr. (of the Class of 1921 of Harvard), whose special hobby was the collecting of old and rare books and pamphlets relating to exploration in the Northern Polar regions and adjacent areas in North America. When his Collection had become valuable he decided to give it to Harvard University for the Library of the Geographical Institute and at the time of his death in 1931 he was keenly interested in acquiring additional volumes to make his intended gift more valuable. After his death his plan to give the Collection to Harvard was carried out by his mother, who added a few special volumes, as he would have liked to do had he lived." (from the Biographical Note at the beginning of the volume)