Search Results: Arctic/Antarctic Exploration from Trench Books

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan, 1926. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Bumps to corners and spine; foxing to page edges, otherwise a sound, unmarked copy. A reprint of the 1915 original that outlined the "history of the first U.S. Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin".

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper Collins, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Stated first but probably a book club edition; slight bumps to two corners. Alaskan history starting with the days of the Russian traders.

New York: John De Graff, 1956. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Good+/Good+. Top left back corner quite worn, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket also worn at back corner, quite nice otherwise. Illus with B&W photos.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. First Edition . White Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. PHOTOS. Flawless but for a small mark at lower right front jacket, and a crease to the front flap. Many photos, B&W and color, of the Antarctic landscape with lengthy descriptions and text. Large, oversized volume. Extra postage will be required outside the USA.

New York: Hastings, 1979. Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Minor wear at edges, clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket shows slight edgewear, not price clipped. "A Personal History by the Last of the Great Polar Explorers" - Captain Finn Ronne, USN. Illus with many B&W photos. Introduction by Lowell Thomas.

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Two volumes. "Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55." These volumes are quite worn in blue/gray decorative bindings that show a ship in the ice. Sound condition, no loose pages, but many pages show light foxing and evidence of use, such as fingerprints/smudges, a few pencil notations, and minor soiling. Dark brown endpapers, hundreds of steel engravings and a fold out map. Original selling dealer's sticker inside front cover (Raynor, Howe, & Ferry, 76 Bowery, N.Y.) . Great reading or research copy.

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1958. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Minor shelfwear at edges, slight lean, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows some wear at corners and edges, not price clipped. "The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958". Co-written with Sir edmund Hillary. Heavily illus with B&W and color photos.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Riou. Mustard colored cloth, black titles and decorations, "Alta Edition". Sound, unmarked copy, shows shelfwear. 126 illustrations.

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1944. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Covers soiled, shelfwear. An Alaskan adventure, edited by Erskine Caldwell. Nice sound reading copy.

New York: Pantheon, 1970. First American Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Slight lean, minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Priceclipped jacket shows light soiling. "A spellbinding documentary novel based on the great arctic adventure of S.A. Andre, who tried to sail to the North Pole in a balloon". B&W photos.

New York: Citadel/Kensington, 2017. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal rubbing. True, modern day adventure in the Antarctic. Illus with numerous photos, some in color.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1953. Second Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Cleveland Woodward. Minor wear at corners and spine ends, very slight age darkening at edges. Jacket shows wear at corners, edges, and spine ends, light soiling, not price clipped. Interesting inscription on flyleaf, two Eskimo words that I can't make out, followed by: "(The Eskimo Greeting to a Good Friend) Best Wishes from Kudla, Miriam MacMillan and Donald MacMillan". Both the author, and her husband, have signed. A children's story, ages nine and up.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1930. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Very light foxing to spine and foredge, 2" closed tear to top of flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, light soiling, not price clipped. A narrative of adventures in the Antarctic. Illus with numerous B&W photos. Indexed.

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light rubbing, not price clipped. "The People of Antarctica"...the people, the servicemen, civilians.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1961. Fourth Printing . White Cloth. Very Good/Good. Bumps to corners, light soiling, unmarked. Priceclipped jacket shows wear at corners, 2" tear/crease bottom back. "The first popular book covering the entire Canadian Arctic......from the Yukon to Labrador". Illus with numerous B&W photos and maps.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Bookplate on half-title page, clean and unmarked, nice copy. Jacket shows minor edgewear, yellowing. "The Story of an Expedition to Ungava and the Belcher Islands", found at the northern half of the Labrador Peninsula. Illus with numerous B&W photos.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Robert M. McBride, 1939. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good+/Poor. Wear to corners and edges. A sound copy, clean and unmarked, illus with B&W photos. Jacket complete, somewhat faded, wear to edges, tear across the back from to right to flap fold (repairable), price clipped. True account of the author and a Mountie patroling the remote regions of Baffin Land. Signed by the author on the half-title page

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. Gray Cloth. Very Good/Fair. The Quest for the North Pole, With selections from Arctic Journals". Bumps to spine ends and corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn at edges, chip to middle spine. The rare journals of various polar explorers, heavily illus with photos, maps, and drawings. Heavy volume, extra postage outside the US.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Minor shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows slight wear to edges. Many B&W photos, drawings, maps, and diagrams.Published in cooperation with the National Audubon Society.

New York: Scribners, 1914. First Edition . Illustrated Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Herbert Senat. Covers worn and soiled, orig owner's bookplate on flyleaf, a sound copy with no loose pages. "The adventures of four classmates an a cruise to Labrador". Based on true incidents.