Farthest North - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Two-volume set in Very Good condition. Second UK edition issued without DJs. Elaborately decorated green cloth over beveled boards with designs and lettering in gold, silver, and red. Gilt edges. Boards feature the ice-bound ship, The Fram; spine depicts solitary figure on mountaintop. Vol. I frontispiece is portrait of Nansen. Very slight yellowing to the title page likely due to… Read more about this item

Westminster, UK: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 vols.; VG-; mid-20th century rebacking of dark green leather, with raised bands and gilt lettering and design; previous boards in green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and design preserved; corners mildly bumped; spines slightly cocked; some foxing and fingerprint stains throughout; contains black and white photos, color… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Thus. Hardcover. A few marks to boards. Gutters split at endpapers. Moderate foxing. Owner's signature dated 1898 "N Edgar Bagley".; Two volumes (complete). Macmillan's Colonial Library edition. Volume One dated 1897, Volume Two undated. Volume One: [viii], 351, [1] pages + 8 pages advertisements. Volume… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. A very good set, some light wear at exgtremities, but generally very clean and fresh. 2 volumes, 8vo. Four folding chromolithographed maps in pockets in volume one. Engraved frontispiece by Johan Nordhagen, 16 color plates, tissue guards. Original decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (the first edition in… Read more about this item

Two volumes. 587, 729 pp. plus 4pp. ads at rear of vol. 2. Four folding maps in pockets of vol. 1. 8 color plates in each vol. G-. Cloth worn at spine ends. Hinged split in vol. 1 with text block loosening. Text and plates are clean. All maps are in very good condition. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and… Read more about this item

London: George Newnes, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1898. 2nd UK Edition. Cloth. The second English edition following the Archibald Constable publication from a year earlier. Elaborate silver and gilt pictorial cloth binding. Little foxing, mainly to endpapers, rear endpapers of Volume II cracked, hinge a trifle weak, else Fine in alike custom cloth-slipcase; The Nobel Laureate's account… Read more about this item

London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1898. (Hardcover set) xv, 480, viii, 456pp. Very good. Dark green cloth with beveled edges, each volume with elaborate illustrations in gilt and silver on the cover and spine. All edges gilt, color plate, photographs, illustrations, folding color map, index. Some wear at the edges and corners, and the map repaired… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1897. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A bright set of the first US edition in Nearly Fine condition. A most handsome and collectible documentation of historical significance. All four folded maps present. Arctic Bibliography 11983; The Nobel Laureate's account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof … Read more about this item

London: George Newnes Ltd., 1898 2 Volumes. 2nd. UK Edition. George Newnes, Ltd., London 1898. Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship FRAM 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the FRAM. About one hundred and twenty full page and numerous text illustrations… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 10x7x4. Nansen, Fridtjof. First edition, not the more common Popular Edition released the following year by the same publisher (which includes fewer illustrations and maps). Lacks one folding map showing actual route of Fram and sledge journey, other three maps included in front and rear… Read more about this item

George Newnes, 1898. 1898 Second Edition. hardcover. 456pp, 480pp, original highly decorative boards, a.e.g, owner's signature, folding map loose at rear, some foxing to endpapers and prelims, VG+. A most attractive set.. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London: George Newness. 1898. Second edition. Second edition. Two volumes. Publisher's original green cloth illustrated and with titles in gilt, red and white to the upper board and spine. All edges marbled. Illustrated with over 200 illustrations and folding map in back of volume one. An attractive very good or better set, the bindings firm with a little bumping… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable and Company,, 1897. First edition, preceding the first Norwegian edition of the same year. Nansen's expedition was "a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM), undertaken to investigate "the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the pole" (Arctic Bibliography); a splendid… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1897. Hardback. Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the bindings of both volumes with volume two a shade darker in the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text blocks. Contents clean and bright despite the limited age-toning. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Early reprint. Two volumes. Tall octavos. 587; 729pp. Frontispiece etchings, 120 full page and other illustrations, all four of the original maps are present in pockets, all tissue guards present. Dark gray cloth decorated in silver, gilt, red, and green. Very near fine.

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1897. 2 volumes. First edition. 16 chromolithographic colour plates from Nansen's own sketches, 120 plates, a profusion of illustrations in text, 4 large folding coloured maps at the rear of the volumes. Royal 8vo, publisher's original turquoise green cloth lettered in gilt on spines and covers with gilt pictorial decorations of… Read more about this item

Westminster:: Archibald Constable and Co.,, 1897. Illustrated with over 120 wonderful illustrations including 16 colour plates fron Nansen's own sketches. Four folding maps. Bound in the publisher's original turquoise cloth with the great sailing ship Fram rendered in gilt on the front cover of volume I and a scene depicting an explorer and dog sled team in a snow storm… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First Edition. Very Good. in two volumes [6.75x9.75"]; Vol. I - x, [2], 587 pp., Frontispiece etched of Nansen, 94 illustrations and images, 8 color plate sketches by Nansen, 4 folded maps, Vol. II - x, [1], 714 pp., [1-4] advertisements, frontispiece of sailing kayaks, 123 illustrations and images, 8 color… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First American edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. x, [4], 587; x, [2], 729, [1], 4; frontispieces, 16 color plates after the author's sketches, four color maps laid into chemise mounted to front pastedown, black and white text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; publisher's dark brown decorative cloth stamped in gilt, green, red,… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sledge. Octavo: 527 p. with photographs, illustrations, and maps. Full gray leather binding, with elaborate gilt… Read more about this item