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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
South, The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: The Whitefriars Press Ltd. for William Heinemann, 1921. 8° (18.6 x 12.3cm.). Half-title. Coloured frontispiece, 32 plates, the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, folding two-colour map at back, occasional illustrations. Original light blue cloth, covers and spine blocked in dark blue, dust-jacket (small tears to dust jacket with loss of small section at head of upper joint).
PROVENANCE:
Shackleton family, and thence by descent.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST 'CHEAP EDITION'. South was first published in November of 1919 in a larger size and with many more plates. For the present edition (the last to be published during his lifetime) Shackleton provided a new preface dated September 1921.
[With:]
E.H.SHACKLETON. South The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition. London: The Whitefriars Press Ltd. for William Heinemann, October 1923. 8° (18.2 x 12.2cm.). Plates. (Some plates starting.) Original brown cloth, blocked in dark blue (extremities slightly bumped). Provenance: Hulse (signature); Shackleton family, and thence by descent.
Third reprint of the new abridged edition (first published in November 1922). (2)
South, The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: The Whitefriars Press Ltd. for William Heinemann, 1921. 8° (18.6 x 12.3cm.). Half-title. Coloured frontispiece, 32 plates, the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, folding two-colour map at back, occasional illustrations. Original light blue cloth, covers and spine blocked in dark blue, dust-jacket (small tears to dust jacket with loss of small section at head of upper joint).
PROVENANCE:
Shackleton family, and thence by descent.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST 'CHEAP EDITION'. South was first published in November of 1919 in a larger size and with many more plates. For the present edition (the last to be published during his lifetime) Shackleton provided a new preface dated September 1921.
[With:]
E.H.SHACKLETON. South The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition. London: The Whitefriars Press Ltd. for William Heinemann, October 1923. 8° (18.2 x 12.2cm.). Plates. (Some plates starting.) Original brown cloth, blocked in dark blue (extremities slightly bumped). Provenance: Hulse (signature); Shackleton family, and thence by descent.
Third reprint of the new abridged edition (first published in November 1922). (2)
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