SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry (1874-1922). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann [printed at The Complete Press], 1919. 8° (248 x 153mm), coloured frontispiece, 87 plates printed on 45 leaves, one double-page, the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, folding two-colour map of the voyage of the Endurance, illustrations including full-page map of South Georgia, errata slip. (Page edges browned, tear to margin of folding map.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in silver (rubbed and frayed at extremities, slight bump to one board edge).

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SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry (1874-1922). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann [printed at The Complete Press], 1919. 8° (248 x 153mm), coloured frontispiece, 87 plates printed on 45 leaves, one double-page, the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, folding two-colour map of the voyage of the Endurance, illustrations including full-page map of South Georgia, errata slip. (Page edges browned, tear to margin of folding map.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in silver (rubbed and frayed at extremities, slight bump to one board edge).

FIRST EDITION. Rosove 308. A1 noting that 'the poor quality paper is prone to browning at the edges'.

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