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SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON (1882-1958)
The Home of the Blizzard being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Philadelphia and London: The Ballantyne Press for J.B. Lippincott & Company and William Heinemann, [1915]. 2 volumes, 8° (245 x 180mm.) Half-titles, errata slip in vol.I. 2 photogravure frontispieces, 128 leaves of plates (including 18 coloured and 9 folding), numerous illustrations (some full-page and including maps), largely unopened. Original blue cloth, upper covers and spines blocked and lettered in silver, dust-jackets, t.e.g. (covers very slightly affected by damp, small tears to dust-jackets). First U.S. edition, fine copy. Rosove 217.A2.a ('Uncommon ... Dust-wrappers very scarce').
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D.MAWSON. The Home of the Blizzard... Abridged Popular Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., September 1934. 8° (217 x 140mm.). Plates, 3 folding maps, illustrations. (Occasional spotting.) Original light blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight fading to cloth, small sections of dust-jacket torn away. Provenance: Frances Downes Ommanney (1903-1980, presentation inscription from the author). Late edition with fine inscription from Mawson ('F.D. Ommanney -with every good wish for success in your Southern quest- Douglas Mawson 26.2.36') to Ommanney, marine biologist and author, who made several voyages on Discovery II during 1931-1937 investigating the natural history of polar waters. (3)
The Home of the Blizzard being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Philadelphia and London: The Ballantyne Press for J.B. Lippincott & Company and William Heinemann, [1915]. 2 volumes, 8° (245 x 180mm.) Half-titles, errata slip in vol.I. 2 photogravure frontispieces, 128 leaves of plates (including 18 coloured and 9 folding), numerous illustrations (some full-page and including maps), largely unopened. Original blue cloth, upper covers and spines blocked and lettered in silver, dust-jackets, t.e.g. (covers very slightly affected by damp, small tears to dust-jackets). First U.S. edition, fine copy. Rosove 217.A2.a ('Uncommon ... Dust-wrappers very scarce').
[With:]
D.MAWSON. The Home of the Blizzard... Abridged Popular Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., September 1934. 8° (217 x 140mm.). Plates, 3 folding maps, illustrations. (Occasional spotting.) Original light blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight fading to cloth, small sections of dust-jacket torn away. Provenance: Frances Downes Ommanney (1903-1980, presentation inscription from the author). Late edition with fine inscription from Mawson ('F.D. Ommanney -with every good wish for success in your Southern quest- Douglas Mawson 26.2.36') to Ommanney, marine biologist and author, who made several voyages on Discovery II during 1931-1937 investigating the natural history of polar waters. (3)
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