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New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1900. Very Good. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. First Edition, first printing with cancel title page, "...of the bone pro-" ending p. 64 and "truding. While Lloyd..." at top of p. 65. Octavo; publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in white and gilt; [6],286pp. Light rubbing to cloth margins, spine lettering a bit dulled, faint soil to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good and sound. Adventure novel set during an expedition to the North Pole during which the leader of the expedition and the accompanying nurse fall in love while the men of his expedition die slow, terrible deaths. Norris was frustrated to discover after the plates for this first edition were set that the title had already been used and copyrighted for a play by Mrs. Crawford Flexner but it was too late to change. [BAL 15034; McElrath A5.1.a].