UNDER SAIL TO GREENLAND by Allen, Arthur S - 1931

New York: Privately Printed, 1931. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of 900 copies. Tan cloth backed blue paper covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front. Trace edgewear and soil, and slightly bumped corners. Binding sound, text clean. Printed on beige, lightly textured paper. Illustrated with b/w photos taken on the cruise, plus a fold-out duotone voyage map at rear (this with lightly creased fore edge). No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. Binding designed by Sydney Bagshaw.

Some wear at the corners. The binding is excellent and the pages are clean. Privately Printed by the Marchibanks Press 1931. 1st edition limited to 900 copies (300 for Private Distribution and 600 for the publisher). Tipped-in frontispiece (portrait) and plates from photos, and folding colour map (at end). Posthumously published account of the expedition, including excerpts from the correspondence between Allen and Rockwell Kent, which led to Kent's participation and his account of the expedition in "N. By E."There are 90 pages

New York: Privately Printed, 1931. Limited. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with photographs taken on the cruise; large folding map, 93 pages, tall slim 8vo, tan cloth backed blue boards (large but faint stain on front cover). New York: Privately Printed, 1931. Limited Edition. A very good(+) copy, internally clean.<br/> <br/> The young author died shortly after the trip. One of 900 copies. Typographic design by T.M.Cleland; map drawn by Rudolph Ruzicka.<br/> <br/>

New York: The Marchbanks Press [and,] Brewer & Warren, 1931 and 1930. First Edition of the first book. One of 900 copies only, this copy one of 300 for private distribution and A PRESENTATION COPY from Hal Marchbanks, the publisher, inscribed in his hand [with,] First Edition of the second book, the true first trade issue preceding the issue by Random House. The first book Illustrated throughout with photographs taken on the cruise, with a facsimile page from the logbook, and a folding map in colour at the end of the volume, and with endpapers depicting the naval architecture of the sailing ship '"Direction". The second book with over 150 dramatic woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent, most are quite large and 8 are full page. 4to and 8vo, publisher's tan grained cloth and gray-blue paper covered boards, the spine panel lettered in gilt, the upper cover decorated and lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in gilt, green and red, the endpapers printed in white on a turquoise background.… Read More