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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photographs and Facsimiles. Tall octavo bound in blue cloth with black backgrounds and gilt titles. No additional printings. Published for the American-Scandinavian Foundation. 372 pages with index. The first full-life biography of the renowned Norwegian explorer/biologist, published soon after his death. This copy shows only very light edgewear, with no frays to the cloth. The spine is sunned, as usual, but all lettering is intact and clearly legible. The is also faint marginal sunning at the top and fore-edges. Hinges solid; binding square. The front pastedown carries the bookplate of Norwegian-American collector Herman Gimmestad, otherwise the volume is unmarked. A clean, tight copy.