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JOYCE, Ernest Edward Mills (c.1875-1940). The South Polar Trail: the Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. London: Duckworth, 1929.
A first edition presentation copy of “the principal firsthand account of the Ross Sea shore party of Shackleton's 1914-17 expedition” (Rosove). The inscription, to mountaineer L. S. Amery, reads “to one who has travelled the Empire and appreciates the work and harships endured by the explorer.” Renard 821; Rosove 188.A1.a; Spence 642.
Octavo (211 x 138mm). 32 plates, with errata slip. Publisher’s original blue cloth. Provenance: L. S. Amery (1873-1955, British politician and mountaineer; presentation inscription) – Explorer Books.
A first edition presentation copy of “the principal firsthand account of the Ross Sea shore party of Shackleton's 1914-17 expedition” (Rosove). The inscription, to mountaineer L. S. Amery, reads “to one who has travelled the Empire and appreciates the work and harships endured by the explorer.” Renard 821; Rosove 188.A1.a; Spence 642.
Octavo (211 x 138mm). 32 plates, with errata slip. Publisher’s original blue cloth. Provenance: L. S. Amery (1873-1955, British politician and mountaineer; presentation inscription) – Explorer Books.