Search Results: Titles starting with R from Polar Books

Heinemann, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: xiv, 240pp, illustrated, 14 b/w photographs, map end papers. Blue cloth covers with white titling in price clipped dustjacket. From the dj flap "In this exciting book the author has recaptured all the drama and heartbreak of Robert E. Peary's and Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's battle to be the first man to claim the Arctic Pole. His account - based largely on personal diaries, contemporary accounts and interviews with survivors - is a remarkable tribute to two extraordinary men." Dustjacket edge worn, nibbled. Slight age toning to pages, contents clean. Very 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: 2966. .

Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1947. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition; xvi, (1), 275pp, illustrated by Bob Hines. Map eps, line drawings in text. Blue cloth covers with dark blue titling. the true and realistic account of one man's adventures and experiences in the bleak country above the Arctic Circle. Charles Gilham's knowledge of the Far North is based on years of intimate acquaintance with both the land and its people. Covers Grubby, age toning of pages, contents clean. 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: 2125. .

The Hogarth Press, 1958. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition: 344pp, illustrated, b/w photographs. Black cloth covers with gilt titling to spine, no dustjacket.Raymond and Elizabeth Robins, a brother and sister team, and their quest for Gold during the Nome Alaska Gold Rush. The author's ''account of her visit to Nome in 1900. The hellish voyage from Seattle on an overcrowded ship, the first impressions of the city of tents on the tundra, the discovery that her brother has become a cross between a saint and a dictator - these lead into a strange, enclosed little world of heroism and racketeering, claim-jumping and militant Christianity. The people [the author] met are a fascinating mixture: a gold miner who had been a detective in the Lizzie Borden case; a group of squatters in the church; a lady who brings her old family silver to start a restaurant at Nome.And there is the passionate, patient Raymond, torn between his desire to leave Nome and settle down with his sister, and his… Read More

Cassell and Company Ltd, 1912. Cloth. Good. 1912 Edition; xii, 279pp, illustrated, 1 map, 16 b/w photographs.Red cloth covers with black titling. From the first page this is a delight. The vanished world of pre-revolutionary Russia, straight out of the novels of the late nineteenth century. Anyone, for example, who has read Tolstoy's 'Resurrection' really should read this fascinating travel document, beautifully observed and written by a man who travelled to extraordinary places at a time when it was difficult and dangerous to do so. This slow journey from Moscow to Vladivostock (followed by a dash into the forbidden land of Manchuria) is a priceless and riveting read. Covers stained, age toning to pages, slight 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: 2095. .

The Religous Tract Society, 1885. Cloth. . Early Undated Edition; 384pp, illustrated, 47 b/w engravings, tissuepaper guard to frontispiece. Expeditions of Martin Frobisher, William Barentz, John Davis, Henry Hudson, William Baffin, Vitus Bering, James Cook, William Parry, John Ross, John Franklin, George Back, John Richardson, Elisha Kent Kane, John Rae, Charles Francis Hall, George S. Nares, and many more. Early Victorian Religious Tract Society, and at the time, a popular religious education series for children. Decorated blue cloth covers with gilt titling. Age toned pages, eps splitting at hinge, prize bookplate dated 1906 tipped onto fep, mild foxing, contents clean. Very 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: 2115. .

Government Printing Bureau, 1906. Cloth. Fair. 1st Edition: xviii, 355pp, illustrated, b/w photogrpahs, diagrams, 1 large coloured folding geological map in pocket. Brown cloth covers with gilt titling and ship device to front cover, gilt titling to spine."Narrative (with supplemental information from previous reports) of expedition sent to patrol the waters, and to aid in establishing permanent government stations on shores.Voyage to the Bay.Winter quarters at Fullerton. Summer cruise of the Neptune in 1904 (Hudson Strait, east side of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay to Smith Sound, return by Lancaster Sound, excursion to Beechey Island and west side Baffin Bay and Davis Strait." - AB 2717. Much on Eskimos, geology, whaling, flora and fauna. "An account of the voyage that established Canada's ownership of Ellesmere and Southampton islands, with much on Eskimo life. Low, a civil servant with a gift for writing, offers a strong text on earlier explorations." - Whale,… Read More

Burke Publishing Co, 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: The original manuscript edited, with appraisal by Frederick J Pohl. 254 pages,illustrated, b/w photos,map on front end paper showing North Polar Region and routes taken by Cook and Peary. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine,no dustjacket. Shelfware, dustjacket nubbled, Contents clean. Sensational vindication of the author's controversial Polar claim to have reached the North Pole in 1908. "The story of the discovery of the north pole in April 1908 and the controversy surrounding it. Who really discovered the north pole, Admiral Peary or Frederick Cook? Here is Dr. Cook's amazing story of his struggle back from the North Pole, a record which vindicates his original claim that he, and not Peary had reached the Pole first. Dr. Cook wrote this final statement in the long and bitter Cook-Peary controversy. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic… Read More

John Murray, London, 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Subscribers' Edition; xv, 302 pages + 5 page list of subscribers, illustrated 35 lithographed plates (of which one is a coloured geological map). Original covers. Shelf wear, covers faded, bumping to the extremities and fraying to the head and tail of spine. Previous owners signature dated 1855 and newspaper clipping pasted on verso front cover, contents clean. spotting to some pages, mainly prelims and plates. A beautifully illustrated edition of this educational work on the geography of Yorkshire with reference to: natural boundaries and divisions, peculiar plants, the stranding of whales, magnetic elements, and fauna of Yorkshire. John Phillips, an English geologist who published the first global geological time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented. Quantity Available: 1.… Read More

Bluntisham Books,Erskine Press, UK, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine/Fine. 1st English Edition; v, 208 pages, illustrated 8 b/w photos including frontispiece, 31 sketches, 6 maps in text. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. Amundsen's diary from the Belgian expedition of 1897-99, under the command of Adrien de Gerlache, the first of a purely scientific nature. This is the first edition in the English language. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 1852970588. ISBN/EAN: 9781852970581. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 421. . 9781852970581

Seeley, Service & Co, No date. Early Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Part of the publisher's 'library of romance' series; 317pages, (1page publishers advertisements). Illustrated, frontispiece + 6 b/w plates, 1 map. Original purple cloth covers titled and decorated in red, white and gilt, with huskies and men dragging a sledge on front cover, musk ox on spine. Shelfware, damp stain to rear cover, spine sunned. Previous owners signature on front end paper,minor foxing to end papers, spine sunned and damp stain to rear cover. 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: 2785. .

Hodder & Stourton Limited, 1934. Cloth. Good. 1st UK Edition; xiv, 306pp, illustrated, 35 b/w photographs. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to front cover and spine, no dustjacket. Excellent illustrated history of Labrador. The author was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador who founded the International Grenfell Association and was knighted by King George V in recognition of his services. Shelfware, Covers grubby, stained, contents clean, some mild foxing, age toning of pages. 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: 2159. .

Seeley, Service & Co, 1915. Cloth. Very Good. Part of the publisher's 'Library of Romance' series; 351pp, (1pp publishers advertisements). Original dark blue cloth covers titled and decorated in red,white and gilt, with huskies and men dragging a sledge on front cover, musk ox on spine. This edition is one of the earlier ones having more illustrations than the later editions. The preface is dated 1906 and a Publishers note on page 8 brings attention to various expedition leaders and publishers for the use of their illustrations. Frontispiece + 21 b/w illustrations + 2 maps all as called for in list of illustrations. Shelfware, rear cover stained. Previous owners signature dated 1918 on front pastedown, some foxing mainly to eps and page edges. A rare item. 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: 2787. .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition; viii, 44 pages, frontispiece, 1 plate, 1 map in text. Original covers in cream unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket slightly grubby, covers and contents clean. In August 1914, Shackleton set sail for the South Pole on the Endurance. His Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to attempt a trans-continental journey from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. Shackleton was doubtful if enough provisions could be carried by the trans- continental party for the complete journey, so his plan called for a second ship to land a team in McMurdo Sound, whose task it would be to lay food depots every 60 miles, as far south as the Beardmore Glacier. This party, on board the Aurora, sailed late in the same year. In January 1915, they landed at McMurdo. However, after a fearful storm, their ship was ripped from its moorings and along with it went most of their supplies.… Read More

The Erskine Press, UK, 2003. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 2003 Reprint; ii, 44 pages, 1 map. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In August 1914 Shackleton set sail for the South Pole on the Endurance. His Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to attempt a trans-continental journey from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. Shackleton was doubtful if enough provisions could be carried by the trans- continental party for the complete journey, so his plan called for a second ship to land a team in McMurdo Sound, whose task it would be to lay food depots every 60 miles, as far south as the Beardmore Glacier. This party, on board the Aurora, sailed late in the same year. In January 1915, they landed at McMurdo. However, after a fearful storm, their ship was ripped from its moorings and along with it went most of their supplies. Refusing to give up,… Read More

Scott Polar Research Institute, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition; viii, 44 pages, frontispiece, 1 plate, 1 map in text. Original maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine in cream unclipped dust jacket with green lettering. Slight age toning to covers, contents clean. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. A reprint was issued by Erskine Press in 2003. Spence, 969. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Spence, 969. In August 1914, Shackleton set sail for the South Pole on the Endurance. His Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to attempt a trans-continental journey from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. Shackleton was doubtful if enough provisions could be carried by the trans- continental party for the complete journey, so his plan called for a second ship to land a team in McMurdo Sound, whose task it would be to lay food depots every 60 miles, as far south as the Beardmore Glacier. This party, on board the Aurora, sailed late in the same year. In… Read More

E.P.Dutton and Company, 1907. Cloth. Good. 1st US Edition; xii, 294pp, illustrated, 67 plates, 6 maps. Woodcuts and illustrations by Edward Whymper. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling and vignette of polar bear on front cover and gilt titling to spine. An historical, detailed survey of travel and exploration to North Pole and Arctic Regions. Book slightly bowed. Covers grubby,hinges loosening,bumped, top and bottom of spine softening, shelfware, eps browned. Age toning. Previous owners signature in pencil Zara A Brandram, 1942 on fep. (Possibly Lady Kathleen Brandram who died on October 2 aged 94, was the former Princess Katherine of Greece and the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria?). 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: 2137. .

Government Printing Office, 1896. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Inscribed by person(s) connected with book. 1st Edition; 148pp, plus 66 plates (11 are folding maps and 55 black-and-white photo-plates). SIGNED John Lloyd Thomas from the Author 2 January 1897 H.M.S. "Porpois". and Authors' card tipped onto title page. Signed in pencil by John Lloyd Thomas with address. Also letter laid in from Kathleen Oldham to John Lloyd Thomas. From John Lloyd Thomas obituary in the British Medical Journal June 14, 1913. We have to record with regret the death of Deputy Surgeon-General John Lloyd Thomas; it took place at his residence, Penmon, in the Isle of Anglesey. During his services in China he contracted sprue, which not only rendered him unfit for active work for long periods during several years, but seriously undermined his constitution, and no doubt contributed to his untimely death. John Lloyd Thomas was born on September 3rd, 1856; he received his medical education at the MiddIesex… Read More

John Murray, London, 1823. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition: vii, [1], 303 pages, illustrated with text illustrations, 27 plates,maps (3 hand-colored) and folding table. Ex Libri, Library hardcover with spine label, text block beginning to split on first few pages. Library pocket paste down and all plates, maps have discreet library stamp of Bradford Library. All plates/maps as called for. Odd spotting to page edges and evidence that the book has been cut to a slightly smaller size at top of pages as some plate numbers are partially missing. Contents clean otherwise. "Reliquiae", his most acclaimed and influential treatise, outlines his arguments for a global deluge in Noah's time. The volume documents Buckland's keen observations and discoveries of the bones of antediluvian mammals (hyaenas, tigers, elephants, rhinos, etc.) in caves and river-gravels in England, France, Germany and elsewhere. Later chapters discuss geologic evidence of catastrophic… Read More

British Museum, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; vi, [6],161 pages, illustrated, 2 plates, frontispiece plus 26 figures and maps in text, with a preface by C.Tate Regan, Director of the Natural History Section of the British Museum. Burgundy cloth cover, spine lettered ad ruled in gilt, gilt vignette on front cover. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1920s; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 382. .

Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1902. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition: 1st one-volume edition of Churchill's second book. With frontispiece portrait of Kitchener of Khartoum and 22 maps and plans, of which 14 are color and 11 folding. [xiv], 381 pages. Shelf wear, split to hinge, spine slightly sunned, bumping and mark to front cover, age toning and some spotting but overall in very good original condition. The River War was originally published as a two-volume edition in 1899. In 1902 Churchill (by then a new member of Parliament) revised and abridged his text, excising much of the criticism of Kitchener for political reasons. There is also a new Preface. For the next 120 years, every one of the many subsequent editions of The River War was based on this 1902 text. This first one-volume edition had only a single printing of just 1,003 copies and so is considerably scarcer than the first edition. This edition has the same distinctive gilt decoration of the… Read More