Three Years of Arctic Service. by Greely Adolphus W - 1894

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New York : Charles Scribner's sons, 1894. rep. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 726 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with fold-out map in rear. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to blue, gilt decorated boards. Small stain to lower corner of frontis piece portrait. Internally very good. Record # 856968

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1894. sep 22 2017. xxii, (2), 726 pp. b/w plates, folding maps. First one-volume edition of Greely's saga. Text and maps are all present. Arctic Bib. 6118. Very good condition in original decorated cloth binding.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Hardcover. First Printing of the Second Edition, with a new Foreword. 5.75 x 8.75in. xxii. 726pp. + "over 100 illustrations made from photographs taken by the party, and with the official maps and charts." Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration in silver. VERY GOOD. Shows very slight shelf rubbing of the extremities, one corner has been chipped, last folding map with a short closed tear neatly held together by a single piece of tape, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and illustrations are clean and completely unmarked, and the boards remain exceptionally bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xxv, [2], 2-428; [3], iv-xii, [3], 2-444, [4] pp. Bound in navy cloth with a white decoration encircled in gold on each front board, gold lettering on the spines. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece and in-text illustrations, volume one with sixteen plates and with four maps and one folding map; volume two with twenty-three plates, two folding maps, and a double-page map. Arctic Bibliography 6118. Greely and his team explored the north coast of Greenland during this expedition. Greely details their difficulties with navigating sea ice, starvation, and what life in the camp was like. The appendices contain geological data of the North Pole, observations of Inuit peoples, and contain information on birds and other animals native to the North Pole. Volume one lacking the free rear endpaper, plates show some foxing, volume two lacks the pocket map.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. frontises, illustrations, maps, (includes a large folding map in back of Vol. 2 and a folding map in back pocket of Vol. 2), xv, 428, xii, 444p. Original decorated blue cloth. 24 cm. Cover rubbed along extremities with chipping and loss of cloth at ends of backstrip and at cover corners. Former owner's name ("Rev. J. A. Timm") on first blank page after front endpaper in both volumes. Light to moderate foxing throughout text which is otherwise sound and complete.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xxv, [2], 2-428, [2]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 2-444, [2] pp. Navy publisher's cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and spines, a red, white, silver, gold, and grey decoration on each front board, decoration in the same colors on the spines. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Volume one illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, numerous plates, and with dozens of in-text illustrations (all illustrations called for are present). Volume two illustrated with a frontispiece, four maps (including one in the pocket), and with numerous plates and in-text illustrations (all illustrations called for are present). Arctic Bibliography 6118. Greely and his team explored the north coast of Greenland during this expedition. Greely details their difficulties with navigating sea ice, starvation, and what life in the camp was like. The appendices contain geological data of the North Pole, observations of… Read More