With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911-1914
by DAVIS, JOHN KING
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Andrew Melrose 1919. First edition, scarcer 'orange' binding edition, imperial octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & black ship illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxi + 183pp, illus plus folding map to rear, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, small black stain to front board upper edge, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, owner's name in pencil to fep, some foxing & tanning to prelims and terminals, sporadic lighter foxing elsewhere)
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- Bookseller
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- Title
- With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911-1914
- Author
- DAVIS, JOHN KING
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andrew Melrose 1919
- Keywords
- John King Davis autobiography Antarctic exploration maritime nautical history
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