SHACKLETON, Henry Ernest. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antartic Expedition 1907-1909. With an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill & An account of the first journey to the South Magnetic Pole by T. W. Edgeworth David, London: William Heinemann, 1909, 3 volumes including supplement (The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters 1907-09), 4°, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 297 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SHORE PARTY and with "special contributions drawn and writtten by different members of the shore party" in the supplementary volume, PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper of volume I inscribed: "To Adolph Haisch with the author's grateful remembrances, Ernest Shackleton, June 18th, 1914," two frontispieces, 12 tipped-in coloured plates and 190 monochrome plates in volumes I-II, one panorama and 3 folding maps in rear pocket at end of volume II, 4 coloured portraits and 6 etchings in volume III (light spotting to this vol.), illustrations and diagrams in text, volumes I-II original vellum, volume III original vellum-backed boards, all three spines lettered in gilt, volumes I-II blocked in gilt with a design of two penguins on upper cover (vellum spotted), t.e.h., others uncut, cloth case (worn).