Recent Arrivals from Polar Books

John Murray, London, 1953. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 4th printing; iv, 48 pages, frontispiece. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Previous owners signature dated 1955 on front end paper otherwise contents clean. Shelf wear, small repaired splits to dust jacket, covers clean. Noted artist, ornithologist, and companion of Scott who… Read more about this item

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. 1st UK Edition: 216 pages, illustrated, map, b/w photos. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, repaired tears to dust jacket, neat previous owners signature on front end papers otherwise contents clean, publishers details rubbed out on title page. … Read more about this item

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Printing February 1925: 270 pages, illustrated b&w photos, 1 folding map. Pages uncut, original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, spotting to page edges and some pages, contents clean. "The book is the narrative of the… Read more about this item

Allan Wingate, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition: xxii, 334 pages, xviii index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, plates, maps including large folding map at end of book. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Covers sunned, shelf wear, some spotting to page edges and end papers, prelims. To the Arctic… Read more about this item

The Erskine Press, UK, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 144 pages plus publishers adverts. Softcover, illustrated with b/w photos, maps. As New, appears unread. In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons… Read more about this item

Allan Wingate, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xxi, 334 pages, index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, maps including large folding map. Original covers, no dust jacket. School presentation copy with presentation bookplate dated 1935 and previous owners neat inscription on verso cover, contents clean. Shelf wear, covers faded,… Read more about this item

The Erskine Press, UK, 2003. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 2003 Reprint; ii, 44 pages, 1 map. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In August 1914 Shackleton set sail for the South Pole on the Endurance.… Read more about this item

The Book Guild, UK, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition. 1st Edition: viii, 260 pages, illustrated with 100 b/w photographs, maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In 1948 Charles Swithinbank, still an undergraduate at Oxford, applied to join the Norwegian-British-Swedish… Read more about this item

The Book Guild, UK, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 1st Edition; ix, 165 pages, illustrated with b/w and colour photographs, maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous neat owners inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. Charles Swithinbank, a British exchange scientist, joins the Soviet 1964-65… Read more about this item

Thornton Butterworth, London, 1935. Book Club Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Keystone Library, 2nd impression, 1935: 240 pages, illustrated, 8 b/w photos, 2 double-page maps. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers bumped and slightly faded, spine titling worn, previous owner name and address on front end paper and newspaper… Read more about this item

Granada Publishing, London, 1980. Paperback. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Paperback, 302 pages, illustrated, 14 b/w photos. Ernest Shackleton's third Antarctic expedition sailed from London. His ship was the Endurance, but little did her complement know that their own Endurance would be tested to the full after the ship was trapped in the ice in the… Read more about this item

Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition: Vol I, xvi, 496 pages; Vol II, xii, 504 pages, illustrated with 62 b/w photos,NOTE: All the 4 maps in pocket at end of volume 2 are Professional COPIES (the large map is in colour). Original covers.… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, London, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Vol I xxi, 551 pages, Vol II xxii-xv, 580 pages. Appendices, indices. Illustrated throughout with over one hundred eighty black & white drawings, plates, 5 maps. Hardcovers, rebacked very nicely. Shelf wear, corners bumped, some minor foxing, mainly to prelims.… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co.,, London, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; xxxi, 784 pages, illustrated, b/w plates, 9maps (2 folding maps in rear pocket are later professional copies). Original Cloth covers, rebacked, no dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper, pages slightly wrinkled, overall a very nice copy. Contains… Read more about this item

Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2002 Paperback Edition: 292 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, maps. Previous owners inscription back of front cover otherwise contents clean. Appears unread. 2 books in one. Great reading. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 1841582204. ISBN/EAN:… Read more about this item

Bluntisham Books, Erskine Press, UK, 1977. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1977 Bluntisham Edition: xv 464 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps, including a large folding map at the end of the book. Original covers, no dust jacket. A beautifully produced book matching very closely the character and quality of the original… Read more about this item

Longmans,Green & Co, London, 1940. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Readers Union Edition; (3), 308 pages, illustrated, map on front end papers, 8 b/w photos. No dust jacket, Pictorial Laminated Covers. Shelf wear, Spine faded and split, previous owners signature in pencil on half title, contents clean. The author was a lecturer… Read more about this item

Longmans,Green & Co, London, 1947. Third Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Reprinted by Novographic Process 1947 Edition; x, 308 pages, illustrated, map end papers, b/w photos. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers stained, spine sunned, spotting to page edges. The author was a lecturer in zoology and made this voyage… Read more about this item

Bluntisham Books, UK, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Softcover, 230 pages, illustrated with 24 b/w photos. Previous neat inscription on title page otherwise contents clean. Appears unread. The first full biography of Rymill (1905-1968), a major, yet little known explorer who was a member of the expedition of Cambridge University… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1952. 6th Edition or Higher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Reading Copy/Fair. 10th impression, pocket sized highly abridged 1 volume edition: 188 pages, illustrated, 22 b/w photos, map end papers. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Contents: Preface, Names of Officers and Men, Scott's early days and naval career, Through Stormy Seas,… Read more about this item