Search Results: Arctic Exploration from Lippincott Books

Baltimore: Noble House, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG/FN. xiv, 274 pp. With photographs. Inscribed by the author to geologist Harold Borns and his wife. Borns Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica is named after him. Near Fine in VG/FN dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. 334 pp. Orange cloth. Scarce dustjacket is price-clipped, has lightly sunned spine, but very little edge wear. Near Fine/GVG

Paris: Payot, 1952. Paper Wrappers. GVG. 244 pp, + 12 pp publisher's advertisement. Map of the South Pole. Text is in French. Henry was Scientific Director of the Washington Star, and a member of the Byrd expedition of 1946-47 to Antarctica. Signed by Henry on ffep to Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star. Noyes joined the Star as a reporter, then during World War II became an ambulance driver in the American Field Service. He rejoined the paper as a foreign correspondent, reporting on American troop activity in Italy and the Allied advance through southern France and then into Germany. The Star was a liberal Republican newspaper rival to the Washington Post. Paper toning, chipped spine edges; many pages uncut. With 8 page publisher's catalog laid in.

New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/FN/Very Good. ix, 397 pp. Aqua blue cloth. A collection of 15 research papers on oceanography and topography of the arctic regions, with numerous drawings, scanning electron micrographs, tables, and graphs, with index. Previous owner's name in ink, otherwise Near Fine. In VG dust jacket.

Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 208 pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates and 2 maps. With bibliography and index. . A study of the exploration and settlement of Northwest Greenland - Avanersuaq - from the pre-historic, subsistence culture of the Inuhuit to the Danish colonization of northern Greenland in the 20th century. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/VG. 208 pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates and 2 maps. With bibliography and index. A study of the exploration and settlement of Northwest Greenland - Avanersuaq - from the pre-historic, subsistence culture of the Inuhuit to the Danish colonization of northern Greenland in the 20th century. Fine in lightly scuffed dust jacket with two minor tears.

The Hague: Mouton, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. x, 406 pp. With biographical notes, index of names, index of subjects. Black cloth, title and emblem stamped in white, charts, maps, tables. Would be near fine but for a slightly musty odor. VG/VG