Search Results: Authors starting with E from Polar Books

Andrew Melrose, 1955. Cloth. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xi, 212pages, frontispiece, 37 photographs. Endpaper maps, 2 maps in text. Black cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. No dustjacket. Covers stained, padge edges spotted, spotting to prelims, Ink date on front end paper. Contents clean Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3270. .

Clarendon Press, 1922. Cloth. Good. 1922 Edition; lvi, 280pp. Green cloth covers with black decoration and titling. previous owners signature on fep, shelfware, contents clean. Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2673. .

Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xi, 360 pages, Frontispiece and 36 plates (colour and b/w), 2 colour folding maps in separate portfolio. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Blue cloth covers with silver titling in grey slip case. Slip case sunned, minor damage to edge. Book & Maps nice and bright, contents clean. The 31 chapters are by various experts in their field including Priestley, Vivian Fuchs, Linton, Morley, Orr, Wiggins, G. de Q. Robin, Raymond Adie, H. H. Lamb, etc and covers all aspects such as polar travel, navigation, dogs, ice cover, seals, whales, fish and bird life, plants, climate, atmosphere, pack ice, aurorae, ionosphere, etc. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3175. . This book is extra… Read More

Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xi, 360pages, illustrated, frontispiece and 36 colour b/w photos. The two colour maps originally supplied are not present. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Original covers. Minor spotting to page edges, contents clean. The 31 chapters are by various experts in their field including Priestley, Vivian Fuchs, Linton, Morley, Orr, Wiggins, G. de Q. Robin, Raymond Adie, H. H. Lamb, etc and covers all aspects such as polar travel, navigation, dogs, ice cover, seals, whales, fish and bird life, plants, climate, atmosphere, pack ice, aurorae, ionosphere, etc. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Wildlife; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3627. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Faber and Faber, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1st UK Edition: 197 pages, illustrated, 8 b/w photographs. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Some minor spotting to prelim end paper edges, contents clean. An anthropological study of the Azande tribe and the relationship between man and woman of that tribe in the 1930s. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Anthropology; History. ISBN: 057110407x. ISBN/EAN: 9780571104079. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3572. . 9780571104079

The Royal Society, London, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Four volumes. Vol I,1960, Introduction, establishment and maintenance of Halley Bay Base, Auroras, Geomagnetism. 222 pages. Vol II, 1962, Radio Astronomy and Ionospheric Physics. pp177, 289 pages. Volume III, 1962, Seismology and Meteorology, 382 pages. Volume IV,1964, Meteorology , Glaciology, Appendixes, 414 pages. Vol I has wear to top of spine, bumped. Assosciation Copy Les Barclay 1957-58 signature to front end paper. Professor Les Barclay was a member of the expedition and spent 2 years 1957,58 at Hallay Bay undertaking ionospheric research. He also wrote the report. Contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3338. . This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

P.A. Norstedt & Soner, 1925. First Edition. Wrappers. Reading copy/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; German text; 194 pages, b/w illustrations in text. Covers detached, damp damaged, sold as reading copy only. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 834. .

George Harrap & Company, 1930. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 1930 reprint (1st Edition 1928); 302pp, illustrated, coloured frontispiece, b/w line illustrations in text, 35 full-page plates, end paper maps. Hard back binding in publisher's original highly decorative bright dark green cloth covers, gilt title block lettering, vignette and gilt borders, super colour illustration onlay to the upper panel in matching dustjacket. Gift inscription on half title, mild foxing, age toning to pages and eps. Very Good/Poor Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2073. .

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1886. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition; xv, 473pp, (30pp publishers advertisements), illustrated, frontispiece, 48 full-page, illustrations in text, 5 maps. MISSING 1 folding MAP AT END OF VOLUME, black eps. Green cloth covers with coloured pictorial decoration of seal on front cover, gilt and black titling. Arctic Biblio 4545. The scarce London edition. Wickersham 2372, (London 1886 edition) . Tourville 1437. Smith 2801. see Ricks p93. "A comprehensive work for general readers, telling the history, geography, peoples and wildlife, particularly the seals, and (in less detail) the sea otters, sea lions, the morse (or walrus), etc. " (AB).Chapters include: Aboriginal life of the Sitkans; Mount St. Elias; Cook's Island and its people; Great Island of Kadiak; Quest for the Otter; The great Aleutian chain; Seal Islands; Alaskan Sea-Lion; Innuit Life and Lands; Lonely Northern Waters; the Mississippi of Alaska, The Yukon River.; Morse and Mahliemoot.… Read More

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st US Edition; x, 421pages, (3pages publishers advertisements) maps on end papers. Blue cloth covers with gilt vignette of ship on front cover and titling to spine. Shelf wear, spine softening, corners bumped. Age toning to end paper maps. Contents clean. In 1876, James Gordon Bennett jr, owner of the New York Herald bought the barque-rigged steamship "Jeanette" for the purpose of getting to the North Pole. In June 1879 the ship, under command of Captain DeLong, departed San Francisco on what was to become one of the most tragic and heroic expeditions in Arctic exploration. This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1930s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2072. . This book weigh more than a kilo so may involve extra… Read More

William Heinemann Ltd, 1938. Cloth. Very Good. 1st UK Edition; xi 384pages, 16 illustrations and plates, appendices, orange cloth, gilt spine titles on black label panels, very slight foxing to some page edges. No dustjacket. Biography. Covers the author's two flights with Amundsen in the Arctic and his flights with Byrd in the Antarctic. A fascinating story of aviation in extreme conditions and survival in an Antarctic summer after a breakdown. Some foxing mainly to page edges and prelims. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1944. .

David and Charles, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. 1st Edition: 192 pages, map, appendix, notes and references, bibliography. The 16 years war. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Contents clean. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; History. ISBN: 0715362216. ISBN/EAN: 9780715362211. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3570. . 9780715362211

Croom Helm, London, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; 160 pages, profusely illustrated, pictorial end papers, b/w and colour photographs, maps and tables. Original covers in unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, dust jacket slightly creased, contents clean. Numerous photographs of antarctic wildlife with over 100 in colour. Eric Hosking, the doyen of wildlife photographers, has recorded here with breathtaking pictures two voyages to the Antarctic. The text is written by an expert on the Antarctic. This book provides an extensive coverage of the fauna and wildlife of this region. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0709912153. ISBN/EAN: 9780709912156. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3428. . 9780709912156 This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

W.Collins Sons & Co, London, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition of the "With 31 photographs by Herbert Ponting", the first illustrated edition, with the now well-known selection of photographs by Ponting, was published in 1938 and has been several times reissued. Scarce. xi, 284 pages, frontispiece plus 7 plate leaves. Folding map tipped into rear cover. Original cloth binding with blue titling, blue end papers, no dust jacket. Covers faded and stained. Ink inscription on front end paper. page edges spotted, DAMP DAMAGED at bottom of some pages which has resulted in some of the plates being stuck, sold as a Reading Copy only First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1128. .

W.Collins Sons & Co, London, 1956. Undated Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Undated issue; 284 pages. Original cloth covers, no dust jacket . Covers stained and frayed. Spotting to page edges. Frontispiece, no other plates. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3432. .

William Collins, 1943. Cloth. Good/Fair. 1st Edition; 47pp, illustrated, 8 colour plates, 19 b/w illustrations. Blue illustrated covers in dustjacket of similar design. The author was one of the survivors of Scott’s last expedition. Here, he tells of the finest British Polar Explorers, their adventures and achievements. Includes Frobisher, Franklin, Ross, Scott and Shackleton. Shelfware, mild foxing, mainly to dustjacket and prelims. Good/ Fair. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2080. .

S.W.Partridge & Co, 1930. Cloth. Good. 1930 Reprint (1st published 1927); 256pp. Blue cloth covers with black titling and illustration to front cover, titling to spine. Fiction adventure. Covers stained, age toning to pages, minor foxing. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2074. .