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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good copy in blue cloth backed boards with a paper spine label. Number 181 of 200 copies printed fro the Explorer's Club. Signed and inscribed by Stefansson and signed by kent and Leacock.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent]. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. A special edition printed for the Explorers Club. Limited edition. Copy 180/200 copies. xi + [6pp] + 381pp. Frontispiece, woodcut, maps (one double). Limitation statement. Signed by Stefánsson; Frontispiece Signed by Rockwell Kent (as called for); Introduction Signed by Stephen Leacock (not called for). Blue sparkled paper boards, blue linen spine with paper label. Fine. Published especially for the Explorers Club. A controversial chapter on Meighen Island had to be published separately. Includes an account of the disappearance of the Greenland colony, the death of Thomas Simpson, the lost Franklin expedition, conjecture on the fate of Andree's ballooning expedition, and an exploration of the circumstances surrounding the missing Soviet fliers. The trade edition was published the following year. [AB 16873]
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. Unsolved Mysteries of the Artic. Macmillan, New York, 1938.
Price: US$488.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book has uncut pages, minor wear at corners, touch of foxing on endpapers thus near fine. Dj has somewhat faded spine. Slipcase has minor wear. Limited edition #116 of 200 copies signed by Stefansson, Kent and Leacock. Scarce!!
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic. The Macmillan Company, 1938.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This special edition of Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic, consisting of two hundred numbered copies, has been printed for the Explorers Club. Each copy contains a frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. This is copy 83 is signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Fine book in near fine dust jacket in a slip case.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed issue (printed for Explorer's Club); #69 of 200 numbered copies, printed for the Explorers Club, signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Rockwell Kent and Stephen Leacock [Arctic Bibliography 16873]. Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. 4 maps. 381pp. 8vo. EXPLORERS CLUB ISSUE (200 NUMBERED & SIGNED COPIES) SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT/ VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON/ S. LEACOCK. An elusive title in this signed issue, especially in dust jacket (printed in an edition of 200 numbered and signed copies for the Explorers Club). Contains an account of the disappearance of the Greenland colony, the death of Thomas Simpson, the lost Franklin expedition, speculation on the fate of Andree's ballooning expedition, and a study of the circumstances surrounding the missing Soviet fliers. The trade edition was published the following year Signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (and numbered), signed by Rockwell Kent, and signed by Stephen Leacock. The publisher's colophon leaf states: "This special edition. of Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic, consisting of two hundred numbered copies, has been printed for the Explorers Club. Each copy contains a frontispiece by Rockwell Kent and is autographed by both Mr. Stefansson and Mr. Kent. This is copy No. ('69')" [signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson on colophon (at conclusion of limitation statement); signed by Rockwell Kent on frontispiece (in lower margin) and additionally signed by Stephen Leacock, at conclusion of his four-page introduction (on p. viii)]. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 16873 Cloth and boards. Faint soiling on blue top edge of text block, else a fine copy (binding is bright, text and illustrations are fresh and clean) in very good dust jacket. The dark blue dust jacket (on laid paper), printed in black and light blue on spine, has moderate tanning on spine (spine has light wear and nick at crown of spine), lower spine has a soil mark (circa one-inch square shadow), else very good (front and rear panels are fresh and bright); scarce in dust jacket Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. 4 maps. 381pp. 8vo First edition, signed issue (printed for Explorer's Club); #69 of 200 numbered copies, printed for the Explorers Club, signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Rockwell Kent and Stephen Leacock [Arctic Bibliography 16873].
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$708.54 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 136 of 200 copies printed for the Explorer's Club and signed on the limitation page by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (the author), on the frontis by Rockwell Kent (the illustrator) and at the end of the introduction by Stephen Leacock (who wrote the introduction). Original quarter cloth over paper covered boards, in the original dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, reinforced to the head of the spine. Frontispiece illustration by Rockwell Kent, and four maps. This special edition of 1938 precedes the trade edition of 1939. In the book, Stefansson covers a number of Arctic mysteries, including the disappearance of the European colony in Greenland, the lost Franklin expedition (1847), the fate of Thomas Simpson's Northwest Passage expedition (1840), S.A. Andree's ballooning expedition (1897), and the missing Soviet fliers (1937).
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom