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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. London: Ballantyne & Co. for William Heinemann, 1909.
2 volumes, 4° (243 x 180mm). Half-titles. Titles in brown and black, plates including 12 coloured after George Marston, one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in rear pocket of vol. II, illustrations. Vol. II with errata slip to p. xvi. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, blocked in silver on upper covers and gilt on spines, dust-jackets [Rosove's no. 2 with no mention of price on the spines], top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities faintly rubbed, dust-jackets expertly restored, upper cover to jacket of vol. I lightly soiled).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, A FINE SET IN DUST-JACKETS. Conrad p. 148; Rosove 305.B1a: 'Dust-wrappers very scarce'; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (2)
2 volumes, 4° (243 x 180mm). Half-titles. Titles in brown and black, plates including 12 coloured after George Marston, one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps printed in three colours in rear pocket of vol. II, illustrations. Vol. II with errata slip to p. xvi. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, blocked in silver on upper covers and gilt on spines, dust-jackets [Rosove's no. 2 with no mention of price on the spines], top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities faintly rubbed, dust-jackets expertly restored, upper cover to jacket of vol. I lightly soiled).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, A FINE SET IN DUST-JACKETS. Conrad p. 148; Rosove 305.B1a: 'Dust-wrappers very scarce'; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. (2)
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