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IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1914-1917 -- ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
South, The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: The Complete Press for William Heinemann, 1919. 8° (248 x 155mm). Coloured frontispiece, 87 plates on 45 leaves, one double-page, the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, folding two-colour map at back, occasional illustrations, errata slip. (Browning to margins, map slightly torn along fold and detached.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in silver (extremities lightly rubbed, front inner hinge a little split). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: 'To G. Gale Thomas with kindest regards from Ernest Shackleton Nov 1919 "Never the lost Endeavour"'.
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, particularly interesting for Shackleton's use of the catch-phrase 'Never the lost Endeavour'. G. Gale Thomas, the book's recipient, is believed to have been secretary to the Charity Commission. Conrad p. 224; Rosove 308.A1; Spence 1107.
South, The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: The Complete Press for William Heinemann, 1919. 8° (248 x 155mm). Coloured frontispiece, 87 plates on 45 leaves, one double-page, the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, folding two-colour map at back, occasional illustrations, errata slip. (Browning to margins, map slightly torn along fold and detached.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in silver (extremities lightly rubbed, front inner hinge a little split). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: 'To G. Gale Thomas with kindest regards from Ernest Shackleton Nov 1919 "Never the lost Endeavour"'.
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, particularly interesting for Shackleton's use of the catch-phrase 'Never the lost Endeavour'. G. Gale Thomas, the book's recipient, is believed to have been secretary to the Charity Commission. Conrad p. 224; Rosove 308.A1; Spence 1107.