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JAMES MURRAY AND GEORGE MARSTON (1882-1940)
Antarctic Days Sketches of the homely side of Polar life... introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: Butler & Tanner for Andrew Melrose, 1913. 4° (25.5 x 19cm). Four mounted coloured plates, 33 black and white plates, illustrations, after Marston, Murray, Sir Philip Brocklehurst and others. Original light blue cloth gilt, coloured plate mounted on upper cover, t.e.g. (corners slightly bumped, lightly soiled).
Rare. edition de luxe, limited to 280 copies, this number 113. Signed by Murray, Marston and Shackleton on half-title. As the title suggests this work concentrates, in general, on the lighter side of expedition life and in so doing casts light on areas that were normally overlooked by the more 'official' accounts. As Shackleton writes in his good-humoured introduction 'I would advise anyone who wants to get to the kernel of the life of the Polar explorer to read the book'.
Antarctic Days Sketches of the homely side of Polar life... introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: Butler & Tanner for Andrew Melrose, 1913. 4° (25.5 x 19cm). Four mounted coloured plates, 33 black and white plates, illustrations, after Marston, Murray, Sir Philip Brocklehurst and others. Original light blue cloth gilt, coloured plate mounted on upper cover, t.e.g. (corners slightly bumped, lightly soiled).
Rare. edition de luxe, limited to 280 copies, this number 113. Signed by Murray, Marston and Shackleton on half-title. As the title suggests this work concentrates, in general, on the lighter side of expedition life and in so doing casts light on areas that were normally overlooked by the more 'official' accounts. As Shackleton writes in his good-humoured introduction 'I would advise anyone who wants to get to the kernel of the life of the Polar explorer to read the book'.