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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
South, The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: The Complete Press for William Heinemann, 1919. 8° (24.8 x 15.6cm.) Half-title, 3-line errata-slip bound before p.1. Coloured frontispiece, 84 plates printed recto and verso of 42 leaves, 3 plates recto only of three leaves (one of these double-page), the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, one folding two-colour map at back, occasional illustrations. (Text with marginal browning and some spotting to plates, clean tear to inner margin of folding map.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in silver, blind-stamped Heinemann device on lower cover.
PROVENANCE:
W.S. (inscription 'To W.S./from R.N.W./29th. September 1924').
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Rare in this condition, without the usual oxidisation of the silver used for the blocking on the binding. Conrad p.224; Spence 1107.
South, The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: The Complete Press for William Heinemann, 1919. 8° (24.8 x 15.6cm.) Half-title, 3-line errata-slip bound before p.1. Coloured frontispiece, 84 plates printed recto and verso of 42 leaves, 3 plates recto only of three leaves (one of these double-page), the majority after Frank Hurley or George Marston, one folding two-colour map at back, occasional illustrations. (Text with marginal browning and some spotting to plates, clean tear to inner margin of folding map.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in silver, blind-stamped Heinemann device on lower cover.
PROVENANCE:
W.S. (inscription 'To W.S./from R.N.W./29th. September 1924').
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Rare in this condition, without the usual oxidisation of the silver used for the blocking on the binding. Conrad p.224; Spence 1107.
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