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Price: US$104.96 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the Brockton Public Library with its bookplate, library binding and minor library marks. Physical description; vol. II (only) 509 pages : ill., maps, ports. Subjects; Arctic regions Discovery and exploration Norwegian. Greenland Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$124.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the Brockton Public Library with its bookplate, library binding and minor library marks. Physical description; vol. II (only) 509 pages : ill., maps, ports. Subjects; Arctic regions Discovery and exploration Norwegian. Greenland Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: ex-library copy with usual markings, covers have heavy wear and color loss, binding tight, first map has lots of tears, xxii + 510 pages, account of a journey across Greenland in the late 1880s, contains 3 color maps, 7 plates and lots of bw woodcut illustrations, some pages may have been removed when bound for library use Size: 6 x 8.5
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$191.31 + shipping
Description: 1st UK Ed. 2 vols. xxii + 510pp. + 24pp. publ. catalogue + x + 509pp. Port frontiss., 10 plates, 4 folding maps [only of 5, lacking route map], numerous ills. Vol. 1. with pp.135-148 stained and sl. wrinkled with wrinkling intruding sl. onto adjacent leaves, some foxing, repair to verso of map, modern e.ps., rebound in blue buckram, portions of original worn cloth laid down to upper boards and spines, t.e. silver. Introduction by J. Scott Keltie.Arctic Bibliography 11985 . with the additions of a preface by J Scott Keltie, a chapter on The Eskimo of Greenland, index and tables of illustrations. US$189
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1890 FIRST UK EDITION. Rebound in dark brown pebble patterned cloth, gilt lettering spines, text block untrimmed with original silvered top edges. From the collection of US National Ski Hall of Famer, Ned Gillette, with his name and address stamp on the FFEP of both volumes (Stowe Vermont), and his Sun Valley name crimp on the short-title page of both volume. Gillette, tragically murdered in the mountains of northern Pakistan in 1988, was renowned cross-county skier, explorer and mountaineer. He traversed Ellesmere Island on skis, made the first ski circuit of Mt Everest and another of Denali (and 1st one-day ascent of Denali), skied in remote China and Manchuria, made a 285 mile winter ski crossing of the Karakoram Range, much more. He authored a book on cross country skiing and one on his ski circuit of Everest. Both volumes have rubbing and chipping at spine ends, and some spine edge splitting at the ends but spines solid and not cracked open, no owner writing or marks on pages (other than Gillette's ownership stamp/crimp), minor foxing on preliminary pages but nearly all pages have no foxing, solid binding, complete with all pages, illustrations, and maps. The volumes measure 228mm tall x 155mm and have 510 and 509 pages, five folding color maps, 12 b/w plates (engravings and photos), many in-text b/w illustrations, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL VOLUMES BEING OFFERED.
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
Fridtjof Nansen. The First Crosing of Greenland. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$373.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. In black cloth with cover illustrations in silver.inscriptions. Small repair to foot of cloth spine of volume 1. Otherwise in very good condition with all maps and plates present. 510 pages and 509 pages plus publisher's book catalogue. Size: 6.5" x 9.5"
Seller: Bosco Books, Looe, CORNW, United Kingdom
Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1890.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Two volume set, 8vos, in original pictorial cloth. All five folding maps/charts present, plus numerous illustrations. Spines cocked, cloth worn and chipped along corners and edges of binding, hinges cracking, covers sunned, foxing and soiling to endpapers, minor foxing to rest of pages, damp staining to last 60 or so pages of volume II with some page waviness, rear cover of volume one stained, discolored, and bubbling.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Nansen, Fridtjof.. THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND.. London: Longmans, Green, 1890.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 vols. 1st edition. Thick 8vo. xxii + 510; x + 509pp. Frontis. ports., plates, text illus., 5 folding maps. Early 20th Century half blue morocco, blue cloth, raised bands, gilt. Marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Signed binding: "Tregaskis, Caxton Head." Engraved bookplate of Lionel Phillips on each pastedown. Clean and Crisp. A very fine set. The narrative of Nansen and Otto Sverdrup, in the company of four others, and their journey to East Greenland to cross the ice cap on skis. Includes descriptions of equipment and preparations, the voyage to East Greenland and challenges related to penetration of its ice belt, a review of previous attempts to cross the ice cap, and a detailed account of the expedition's crossing of the inland ice "Umivik-Godthaab" on skis in August and September of 1888. Interesting observations on Eskimo Life, and notes on skiing. The illustrations are based on photos and sketches by Nansen. Confidat Emptor. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada