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SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922). The Heart of the Antarctic being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 by E.H. Shackleton ... with an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill ... an account of the first journey to the Magnetic South Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David. London: Ballantyne & Co. for William Heinemann, 1909.
2 volumes, 4o (243 x 180 mm). Half-titles. Titles in brown and black. Plates (12 colored after George Marston), one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colors in pocket at back of vol. II, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, blocked in silver on upper covers and gilt on spines, top edges gilt (some light rubbing, spine slightly darkened).
FIRST TRADE EDITION. Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.B1b; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (2)
2 volumes, 4o (243 x 180 mm). Half-titles. Titles in brown and black. Plates (12 colored after George Marston), one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colors in pocket at back of vol. II, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, blocked in silver on upper covers and gilt on spines, top edges gilt (some light rubbing, spine slightly darkened).
FIRST TRADE EDITION. Conrad p.148; Rosove 305.B1b; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (2)