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London: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, 1941. 254 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map endpapers. B&w photographs, maps. "The search for a land greater than the United States and Mexico began centuries ago, but it was not until a little more than a hundred years ago that an American sealer, Nat Palmer, first glimpsed its mainland. After the fanatic fumblings of explorers like Quiros, the discoverer-priest, hard-headed men pushed farther and farther south to learn what lay in the land of mist and snow. Captain Cook sailed around the land without seeing it; Lieut. Charles Wilkes, an American, sailed along its coast for 1,500 miles. Capt. James Clark Ross, the famous Englishman, broke into the silent sea which bears his name and for the first time brought back some knowledge of this great continent, with its high barriers of ice, its lofty mountain ranges and a live volcano, its tremendous beauty. Since then men have been to the South Pole on foot and in airplanes, have lived on ships fast in the ice…
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THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN.
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New York: Whittlesey House, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Dust Jacket. Bookplate but book near fine. (14)254pp. Index. Photo plates. Maps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
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The Antarctic Ocean
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The Antarctic Ocean
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New York: Whittlesey House (McGraw Hill), 1941. First thus. Hardcover. Good+ in good+ jacket. Boards and spine bright, but there is chipping to cloth at top of spine. Jacket has chipped at corners and edgewear, dusty, spine darkened. Price clipped. 254 with index. Part of the Oceans of the World series. An account of "a roaring, tempestuous sea that... has a vicious character all its own." With map endpapers and B&W photos on cardstock. Approx. 6 by 9 inches.
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NY: Whittlesey House, 1941. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Whittlesey House 1941, first printing. 8vo. xiii+254 pp., ilustrated with b/w plates, map end papers. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..
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The Antarctic Ocean.
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London, Museum Press Limited, (1948).. First UK Edition; 8vo; pp. 225; endpaper maps, b/w frontispiece, illustrated title page, 14 b/w plates, 12 maps, index, original cloth, minor chipping to dustjacket, spine and corners bumped, minor flecking to page edges, minor foxing to front and rear few pages, price clipped, a good copy.
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THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN
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New York: Whittlesey House. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Rubbing along panel edges. 1/4 inch open tear at spine crown. .
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The Antarctic Ocean
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Hardcover. Museum Press Limited,London 1948. First UK edition.225pp, b&w ills in text, 1 plt, Very Good condition in slt. ruffled dj. Spence 885. Listed in the foreward as a "complement to and continuation of H.R. Mill's famous 'The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton'"
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The Antarctic Ocean; [part of the Oceans of the World series]
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New York: Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill), 1941. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, 254 pp. [1], photographic image by Herbert Ponting of sailing ship [Terra Nova, Scott's 1911-12 expedition] in ice field on title page, 14 plates with photographs, 12 maps; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and triton image on spine with title on black field with gilt borders, top edge blue dye, map of Antarctic regions with notation of expeditions on front and rear endpapers; Dark blue dust jacket with yellow-green outlined and white letters on front and spine, ocean illustration of iceberg and sailing ship on front and spine, advertisements in blue lettering on rear; Minor shelf wear to all top and bottom edges, bottom corners bumped, some slight darkening of text edges; Some shelf wear and small chips to all dust jacket edges and top of spine, spine and rear cover darken with age. [Rosove 1236, Spence 883]. Russell Owen [1889-1952] was a journalist and writer interested in adventure…
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The Antarctic Ocean; [Special binding by National Library Binding Company of Ohio]
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New York: Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill), 1941. First Edition. Near Fine. [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, 254 pp. [1], photographic image by Herbert Ponting of sailing ship [Terra Nova, Scott's 1911-12 expedition] in ice field on title page, 14 plates with photographs, 12 maps, cartopgraphic end papers from original binding at rear; Three-Quarter bound dark green goat with marbled paper covers, gilt boarders, gilt lettering on spine in red dyed label, three color dyed gilt edged penguin illustration on spine, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, all edges trimmed; Minor rubbing on a few spots, corners and edges, spine faded, bookplate of Roberth Wetherill, Jr. on verson of front end paper; A fine example of special rebinding. [Rosove 1236, Spence 883]. Russell Owen [1889-1952] was a journalist and writer interested in adventure and exploration. He covered the air race to the North Pole with Amundsen and was part of Byrd's Little America I Antarctic expedition of 1928-30, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for…
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