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[Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)]
Hugh Robert MILL. The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: Morrison & Gibb Ltd. for William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 8° (21.7 x 14.2cm.). Title in blue and black. Portrait frontispiece, 19 plates. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in gilt, Heinemann device in blind on lower cover (small tear to foot of spine, front inner hinge loose), dust-jacket (torn with loss).
PROVENANCE:
Cecily Jane Swinford Shackleton (inscription, armorial bookplate), and thence by descent.
FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF SHACKLETON'S DAUGHTER. Spence 795.
[With:] The Contemporary Review. London: March 1922. No.765 only, 8° (24.5 x 15.5cm.). Original wrappers (small tears to covers). Provenance: Lady Shackleton (signature on upper cover 'E.M. Shackleton'), and thence by descent.
The Review includes the article 'Sir Ernest Shackleton: A Study in Personality', an assessment of Lady Shackleton's husband by her brother-in-law Charles Sarolea (pp.321-328). (2)
Hugh Robert MILL. The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: Morrison & Gibb Ltd. for William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 8° (21.7 x 14.2cm.). Title in blue and black. Portrait frontispiece, 19 plates. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in gilt, Heinemann device in blind on lower cover (small tear to foot of spine, front inner hinge loose), dust-jacket (torn with loss).
PROVENANCE:
Cecily Jane Swinford Shackleton (inscription, armorial bookplate), and thence by descent.
FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF SHACKLETON'S DAUGHTER. Spence 795.
[With:] The Contemporary Review. London: March 1922. No.765 only, 8° (24.5 x 15.5cm.). Original wrappers (small tears to covers). Provenance: Lady Shackleton (signature on upper cover 'E.M. Shackleton'), and thence by descent.
The Review includes the article 'Sir Ernest Shackleton: A Study in Personality', an assessment of Lady Shackleton's husband by her brother-in-law Charles Sarolea (pp.321-328). (2)
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