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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
Alexander MACDONALD. Through the Heart of Tibet London, Glasgow, Dublin and Bombay: Blackie & Son Limited, 1910. 8° (18.8 x 13.7cm.). Half-title, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at back. 8 two-colour plates after William Rainey. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue pictorial cloth.
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) (author's presentation inscription, dated 'Sept. 26/1909'), and thence by descent.
DEDICATEE'S COPY WITH LENGTHY PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR. The inscription reads 'Dear Shackleton,/Take this book from a humble/traveller who deeply appreciates Shackleton the man, as/well as Shackleton the Explorer. This is the first Copy issued and I wished you to have it. May all/good be with you./Alexander Macdonald/Woodside/Cardross/Sept. 26/1909/"For I know"/"How far high failure overleaps the bound"/"Of low success....".'
[With:] Laurence HOPE [i.e. Adela NICOLSON (1865-1904)]. Indian Love. London: William Heinemann, 1918. 8° (21.3 x 14.4cm.). Half-title. Portrait frontispiece. Original green paper-covered boards, paper title-label on backstrip. Provenance: Lady Shackleton (inscription 'E.M. Shackleton/1918'), and thence by descent. (2)
Alexander MACDONALD. Through the Heart of Tibet London, Glasgow, Dublin and Bombay: Blackie & Son Limited, 1910. 8° (18.8 x 13.7cm.). Half-title, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at back. 8 two-colour plates after William Rainey. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue pictorial cloth.
PROVENANCE:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) (author's presentation inscription, dated 'Sept. 26/1909'), and thence by descent.
DEDICATEE'S COPY WITH LENGTHY PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR. The inscription reads 'Dear Shackleton,/Take this book from a humble/traveller who deeply appreciates Shackleton the man, as/well as Shackleton the Explorer. This is the first Copy issued and I wished you to have it. May all/good be with you./Alexander Macdonald/Woodside/Cardross/Sept. 26/1909/"For I know"/"How far high failure overleaps the bound"/"Of low success....".'
[With:] Laurence HOPE [i.e. Adela NICOLSON (1865-1904)]. Indian Love. London: William Heinemann, 1918. 8° (21.3 x 14.4cm.). Half-title. Portrait frontispiece. Original green paper-covered boards, paper title-label on backstrip. Provenance: Lady Shackleton (inscription 'E.M. Shackleton/1918'), and thence by descent. (2)
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