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Price: US$99.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1893. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Original cloth, lettered in white and black. Illustrated throughout. 350 pages. Fair or better.Rebound; tight binding; exlibrary with usual marks; some pencil marks throughout (can be erased); some foxing and a few small tears; some wear to covers. Nansen's (a major polar explorer) experiences with the Eskimos (Inuit) of Greenland and Northern Canada. Contains much of their culture, dress, boats and kayaks, igloos and tents, weapons and hunting, fishing, cookery, women, marriage, morals, art, music, religion, etc. Very scarce. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
NANSEN, Fridtjof:. Eskimo Life. Translated by William Archer.. London, Longmans, Green,, 1893.
Price: US$424.30 + shipping
Description: With numerous illustrations in the text and on plates, XVI, 350 p. Name on preliminary page, a few pages slightly stained, otherwise very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0
Seller: Buch & Cafe Antiquarius, Bonn, NRW, Germany
Nansen, Fridtjof. Eskimo Life -- 1893 FIRST UK EDITION. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1893.
Price: US$683.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1893 FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Original greenish blue cloth with gilt lettering spine, gilt decorations front cover and spine, original black coated EPs. The book has some light spotting to covers, some puckering to cover cloth, some darkening to spine, cracking to EP hinges but hinges very sound and not loose (not breaking), old owner gift inscription on verso of FFEP dated 1932 and name penned to recto of frontispiece and owner name stamped to corner of short title page (NOT ex-library) otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, some foxing but mainly restricted to pages with plates and to the first and last few pages (most pages have no foxing), solid binding, usual browning to advertisement pages at end of book (due to cheap paper used for the ads), no restorations. The book measures 229mm tall x 153mm, and has 350 pages + 24 pages of ads, 16 b/w plates, 16 in-text illustrations, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
Nansen, Fridtjof. ESKIMO LIFE. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1893.
Price: US$803.05 + shipping
Description: Translated by William Archer. Pp. xvi+350+24(publisher's catalogue, dated August 1893), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 15 plates, text illustrations; tall demy 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards flecked and slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the fore-corners and spine extremities lightly worn; uncut; bookplate and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, two inked ownership inscriptions on half-title page (dated 23/2/[19]06 and Oct 1973), hinges starting, a couple of closed edge tears (one extending from bottom edge into last 4 lines of text pp. 87/8), advertisements browned, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1893. First edition. *In 1888 Nansen's team made the first successful crossing of Greenland's interior, spending several months living among the Inuit. The English translation includes revisions made by Nansen. The translator also 'requested and received Dr. Nansen's permission to suppress one or two especially nauseous details of Eskimo manners, which seemed to have no particular ethnological significance' [translator's preface].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Fridtjof Nansen. Eskimo Life. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1893.
Price: US$2245.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A scarce first edition of this work by Fridtjof Nansen. With 16 plates and woodcuts in the text. Publisher's Catalogue to the rear. Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. His polar exploration won him international fame and recognition, and his innovations in equipment and clothing were influential in the field of Arctic exploration. In a green cloth binding with gilt pictorial detail to front board. Externally, smart with just some light rubbing to extremities and wear to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge tender after endpaper. Lacking a blank. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright with light scattered spotting. Publisher's catalogue age toned. Ink signatures to half title. Blind stamp to verso of frontispiece Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom