Search Results: Authors starting with B from Chet Ross Rare Books

Kobenhaven [Copenhagen]: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1905. First Edition. tall octavo; 562pp. Publisher's full-red cloth covers with, all maps, photos, charts and complete color plates accompany the Danish text; 6 maps (one foldout in color, 2 full-page color, 1 full-page black-and-white, 2 in text), 42 mostly full page photographic full-page illustrations (6 color), 224 mostly photographic illustrations. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. No prior ownership markings, no foxing, folds or tears, salmon-color end pages – Near Fine internally – a Very Good+ copy overall.
The original publications were published on parts – this is the first publication of the compiled narratives. Scarce. Spence 153. Taurus 23; Rosove 48.A2.b. This Danish edition, a language closely related to Norwegian, contains materials not present in the English edition, including attractive color plates and a report by Capt. Bernhard Jensen from 1 March 1899 to 28 January 1900 when the Ship's party was separated from the Cape… Read More

Signed and inscribed by David Brainard to his daughter Elinor.
Indianapolis & New York: by Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1940. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo – 22.2cm. 305 pages, frontispiece portrait, black-and-white photographic plates, cartographic endpapers, a complete copy. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles on cover and moderately faded spine and slight wear at extremities. In Near Fine condition; Pages are clean and gutters are strong and un-cracked. A Near Fine copy of a first-person account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition under the command of Lieutenant Adolphus Greely. This volume contains Brainard's entire diary, a portion of which (the last four chapters) was published in 1929 as "Outpost of the Lost". Arctic Bibliography 2071
This unique copy with significant provenance being signed and inscribed by David Brainard in the year of publication on the half-title page "To my sweet and lovely daughter Elinor, D. Brainard – Washington, D.C.; Aug. 31st, 1940".
Account by Sergeant David… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam,1938. First Edition, First Printing. Deluxe Edition. 8vo – 21.4cm. [ix], 296pp. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full navy-blue Morocco, bright gilt titles and decoration to spine in gilt, five raised bands, double lined gilt rule bordering boards, marbled endpapers with decorative gilt ruling, original blue silk ribbon page-marker, top page edges gilt, text in dark navy-blue ink. Decorations by Richard E. Harrison. Signed by R.E. Byrd. — this being numbered copy #120 of 225. A fine copy. Scarce
A finely produced deluxe edition of the narrative that is arguably Byrd's most important work – an intensely personal account of his isolation and near death through an Antarctic winter in a small hut at Latitude 80° 08' South – located 160km south of Little America on the Ross Ice Shelf. Alone is a first-person account of human endurance while experiencing long term isolation under extreme conditions. This is a very elegant publication, well-written and a very good read.… Read More