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Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Burgundy Cloth boards with silver blocked titles to spine and front, 185 x 135 mm approx. Publisher's Swan and Ship end papers, xii + 452 pp + 32 page publisher's catalogue August 1897. Portrait frontis with tissue guard , Line Map + many unspecified illustrations. 2nd printing1897 of the Colonial Edition in One Volume. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair no d/j (Book - fading to spine, moderate to heavy shelf wear with fraying to head and tail of spine, Previous owner book plate to front paste down, original owner name and date 1897 to reverse of front free end paper. tissue guard browned with tears, binding sound, no cracks to end papers. No other notable defects). A sound reading copy and priced as such.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Fridtjof Nansen. The First Crossing Of Greenland. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1897.
Price: US$26.76 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1897. Reprinted. 452 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Marking to front board.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition THUS, 8vo. frontis. Pp. xii, 446, 24 Catalogue dated August 1897. Illustrated and photos throughout. Original burgundy cloth with silver lettering to front board and spine.One volume edition of the English translation, originally published in Norway. 1890. Rubbing to boards, spotting to pages, solid binding, prize label to verso of front board.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Fridtjof Nansen. The First Crossing of Greenland. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897.
Price: US$77.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1897. New Edition. 452 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces. Book has forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, xii, 452 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is sunned with gilt lettering. Book is rebound. Boards have minor shelf wear and sunning. Text block has minor foxing and pencil writing on the copyright page. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1372841. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
NANSEN, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland.. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897,, 1897.
Price: US$259.82 + shipping
Description: in-8vo, XII + 452 p. + 32 p. (catalogue), richly illustrated + 1 map, small legacy stamp ?Guggisberg?, original publisher?s red clothbound, title on spine and frontcover, light wear at spine ends and corners. Fine copy. Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°13' during his North Pole expedition of 1893?96. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland