MY ARCTIC JOURNAL: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos. With an Account of The Great White Journey Across Greenland by Robert E. Peary.

New York and Philadelphia: The Contemporary Publishing Company. 1893. First edition. First edition. Large paper edition. Signed by the author. Tall 8vo. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative blue foliate design to the edge of the upper board and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait frontispiece (unique to this large paper edition), 21 photographic plates (17 black and white and 4 tinted), a map at the rear and numerous smaller photographs in-text. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with marking to the boards (as is common), a small chip to the head of the spine and a little bumping to the corners. The contents, with a small contemporary ownership label to the front pastedown, a previous owner's pencil inscription to the front free endpaper and a little marking to the margins of the last few pages, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. Signed by Josephine Diebitsch Peary in black ink to the foot of the photogravure portrait frontispiece. Josephine Peary (1863-1955) was an author, arctic explorer and the wife of the explorer Robert Peary, the first white person to reach the North Pole. Accompanying her husband on numerous expeditions to the Arctic, Josephine travelled farther North over the ice fields than any white woman had before, earning her the moniker of "First Lady of the Arctic". In the present work, she provides an intimate account of the couple's Greenland expedition of 1891-92, the first expedition on which she had joined her husband. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.