The Treasure Trail - A Rattling Good Yarn by Evans Admiral E.R.G.R

London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1930. Second Edition (after first in 1927). Good. Light blue cloth, rubbed, bumped at spine front bottom and top. Some pen on first free endpaper but pages clean and binding square.. 256 pages. Young adult novel by author of The Adventures of Peter, South with Scott and Keeping the Seas. With color frontispiece illustration by Norman Ellis: "The boy saw the flash of the knife as the nigger made to sever the trace which supported his weight." Evans was second-in-command to Robert Falcon Scott on expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1913. Approx 5 by 8 inches.

Ward Lock, 1941. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1941. First Edition. 128 pages. Beige pictorial boards and jacket. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

collins. hardback octavo, folding maps at rear, with d/w, chipped spine, bumped corners (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

London: Lutterworth Press [1950], 2nd printing. (Hardcover) 172pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Map endpapers, frontispiece, plates, bibliography, index. Also known as E.R.G.R. Evans. Book about Roald Amundsen & James Cook. (Antarctica, Birds, Exploration, Polar Exploration, Whales).

London: Harrap, 1930 Original blue cloth with vignette of sailing ship and titles in black, colour frontispiece, 4 b&w illstns. Light browning in foredges, light foxing in endpapers and prelims, small rust mark in bottom corner of some pages, small ink mark in front endpaper. Cover has signs of wear, corner rubbing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Ghosts of the Scarlet Fleet by Rear-Admiral E.R.G.R. Evans

















Hardback, 1932, first edition, published by The Junior Literary Guild and Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 310 pages.











Measures around 8 3/8" by 5 3/4" by 1 1/4". No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth binding, red lettering and pictorial detail to front board, red lettering to spine. Discolouration and heavy scuffing to spine. A little scuffing and marking to boards. Rubbing and signs of shelf-wear, tearing and fraying to spine edges. Some slackness to binding but reasonably firm overall. Page fore-edges deckled, upper edges with red hue. Some marking and scuffing to page edges, a little tanning. A little staining to first few pages. Previous owner pencil inscription to front pastedown but otherwise page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.

London: Partridge, 1927 Green cloth titled in black on spine and front board, colour frontis by Norman Ellis. Tight and square, tidy boards, faded at spine, light foxing in the edges and early pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

S.W.Partridge & Co, 1930. Cloth. Good. 1930 Reprint (1st published 1927); 256pp. Blue cloth covers with black titling and illustration to front cover, titling to spine. Fiction adventure. Covers stained, age toning to pages, minor 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: 2074. .

London: Bodley Head, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First ediiton. Hardcover in silver paper-covered boards lettered in red and decorated in blue with image of galleon under full sail. 311 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's adverts. Four full page illustrations in color and haed pieces in black and white by Stanley Rogers. A tight example, modest rubbing to the extremities and with scattered foxing to the edegs of the text block as well as the first few and final few leaves. A sea adventure/suspense novel compete with pirates, treasure, intrigue, "Terror Island", etc. Vice Admiral Sir Edward "Teddy" Evans was a noted Antarctic explorer, sent by the Roya Navy on a relief mission for the Discovery Expedition of 1901-04. He later was Scott's second in command and captain of the Terra Nova during the ill fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910-13.

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1938 Undated [c. 1938]. VG+/VG. 12mo. original brown cloth (a little rubbed, endpapers offset, scattered spotting) in dustwrapper priced 2/6 net (rubbed, frayed at extremities); pp. xii, 284, with frontispiece and 3 maps. A very good copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.