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Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto, xxxii, 373pp. Publisher's blue cloth, pictorial front cover, gilt title on spine. Stated "second edition" on title page. Top edge gilt. Complete with 8 color plates, hundreds of black and white photographs and large fold-out map at rear. Light rubbing to edges, loss of gilt at bottom of spine, bright illustrations and coloring on front cover. Inscribed by Robert E. Peary on the front free endpaper: "To Edward A. Carruthers, with best wishes of R.E. Peary. - Apr. 12th '17." Book contains an introduction by President Theodore Roosevelt. This book recounts the voyage of Rear Admiral Robert Peary in his quest to be the first person to reach the North Pole. An attractive copy.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. [4], xxxii, 373 pages. Illustrated with 8 colored plates, 100 black and white photographs, and a folding map in back. A few light scuff marks to the leather on the raised spine bands, front and rear joints, and the upper front right corner. Light soil to the cloth front board. Folding map has a small .75" closed tear upper edge. Three-quarter blue Moroccan leather binding with light blue cloth covered boards. 5 raised bands on the spine with gilt stamped title and designs. Gilt top edge. Blueish marbled end sheets. Foredge and bottom edge untrimmed. The General Hubbard Edition was published September 1910. Limited, numbered edition. #149 of 500 signed by Peary on the blank page preceding the half title. Illustrated book plate of Jane S. Strong on the front paste down.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
PEARY, Robert E.. North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary. , 1910.
Price: US$4125.00 + shipping
Description: PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. xxxii,373pp. 8 color plates, 100 black and white illustrations from photographs; folding colored map. Small 4to. 3/4 crushed dark blue morocco and cloth, raised spine bands, compartments gilt, T.e.g. Fine. Arctic Bibliography 13230. One of 500 signed numbered copies. The "General Hubbard" edition of this narrative of Peary's final, and successful, expedition to the North Pole in 1908-09. Pinned to a rear endpaper is a typed letter signed from Peary dated 14 March 1911 to Mr. Charles Stanford authenticating the signature on the limitation page: "I have personally signed the autograph sheet of every volume of the General Hubbard edition that has been issued." This detailed account is lavishly illustrated with eight color plates "reproducing photographic enlargements colored by hand," an additional one hundred black and white illustrations from photographs, and a folding colored map. The narrative provides information on the expedition's organization, personnel, the voyage, interactions with Eskimos, hunting, sledging, and detailed account of the final march to the pole. The volume also includes an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Director and Editor of the National Geographic Society.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.