Search Results: Polar and northern studies from Come By Chance Books (IOBA)

New York, New York, USA: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good . 162 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Decorative endpapers. Black and white photographs throughout. Illustrations by Albert Shaffenberg. Light surface wear to original blue covers with minor bump to spine extremities and corners. Toning to pages with occasional foxing. Previous owner's bookplate. No dj. Clean and bright with no marks. A classic account by the step-son of Amelia Earhart who travelled with renowned Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett to Baffin Island in Arctic Canada.

Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 267 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Five maps. Colour photographs. Light surface wear only. A rivetting account of the 1958-59 scientific expedition to the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica launched by Victoria University faculty and students. An excellent copy.

London, England: Sinclair Stevenson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 326 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Colour photographs throughout. Maps to endpapers. Signed by Ranulph Fiennes on the title page in the publication year. Clean, bright and unmarked. Light toning to outer edges of pages. In protective mylar jacket. A fine first edition signed by one of the greatest modern-day explorers.

Cambridge, England: Polar Publications/Scott Polar Research Institute, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 140 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light smudging and surface wear to covers. Internally clean and unmarked. A series of written contributions by esteemed colleagues of British polar historian and diplomat Brian Birley Roberts (1912-1978). Contributors include Sir Vivian Fuchs, Phillip Law, Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, Charles Swithinbank, Lord Shackleton and Kevin Walton.

Oslo, Norway: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 302 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In Norwegian. Black and white photographs and fold-out map at rear. Covers and spine are stained with split along side of spine. Internally clean with an occasional mark. An important account of iconic Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen's last flight in the summer of 1928 during a mission to locate Italian explorer Umberto Nobile. A good reading copy of a hard-to-find book.

London, England: Longmans Green and Co. Limited, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 305 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black and white photographs throughout. Adapted from 'New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Regions' by Otto Sverdrup and with additional chapters by T.C. Fairley. Minor bump to spine extremities and corners. Internally clean with no marks. Light edge and surface wear to price-clipped dust jacket. DJ in protective mylar cover. Norwegian Otto Sverdrup (1854-1930) participated in Fridtjof Nansen's 1888 expedition across Greenland and sailed with him on the Fram in 1893.