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Stonington, CT: Stonington Historical Soc, 1996. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Reprinted from The Geographical Review, Vol. XXX, No. 4, October, 1940 - The American Geographical Society. p529-p552.

Davisville, RI: NSF Antarctica, 1973. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Yearbook style report of Wintering Over in Antarctica in 1973. I was part of "summer support" "on the ice" during that time. 48pp.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1965. HC. good+, gray buckram cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB. Prepared by The Arctic Institute of North America with suppport of Government Agencies of The United States and Canada. 1392pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) DAMPSTAIN TOP EDGE-OWNER INSC. ISBN 0393039498 315pp.

New York: Saturday Review Press, 1974. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). about 100 B&W ill, 16pp col.. ISBN 0871502587 The story of the tragic and heroic death in 1912 of Robert Falcon Scott in the wastes of the Antarctic has ever since captured people's imagination. 223pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author. B&W illustrations. Very nice clean and tight copy. Warmly inscribed on the first blank page by the author on Thanksgiving Day 1937. Stefansson tells how he became an explorer and of his first trip into the Arctic. 301pp.

Washington, DC: US Goverment Printing Office, 1969. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. 54pp.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0316154263 Focuses on the people--scientists, servicemen, and civilians--who choose to live and work along the earth's final frontier, Antarctica. 262pp.

New York: Atheneum, 1989. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill, B&W maps & diagrams. ISBN 0689120346 Here, Wally Herbert, one of the finest polar explorers of our time, takes on the task of analyzing Peary's achievements. 395pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0396075355 From my personal collection, cannot keep it all. I made two trips to McMurdo and the Pole while serving with the Naval Support Forces, Antarctica from 1971-1974 160pp.

Washington - New York: Robert B. Luce, Inc, 1973. HC. good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) EX-LIB. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0883310422 Rawlins here presents indubitable proof that, even if Peary did reach the Pole, his scientific and navigational records wre so inadequate that his claim should be revoked. 320pp.

Washington, DC: Amer. Assn. Adv. Science, 1971. HC. good, light green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. B&W ill, fold-out map. ISBN 0871680939 No dustjacket. Publication 93 - American Association for the Advancement of Science. 768pp.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0275526704 This book tells the story of Scott's last expedition. Herbert Ponting was the "camera artist" of the expedition, and his photographs are a marvelous record of this epic exploration. 160pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1950. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 417pp.

London: Collins, 1952. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 288pp.