My Attainment of the Pole. Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Cinter 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy

Cook, Frederick A.

Verlag: New York Polar Publishing Co. 1911, 1911

Beschreibung

1st Edition. xx,[2],604pp. Quarto in original gilt lettered illustrated brown cloth. 31 plates (including frontispiece portrait), illustrations, diagrams, and facsimiles. Foredge has some minor old staining. A bit of old staining on the spine otherwise the spine is bright. Generally very clean and crisp contents. very good Arctic Biblio. 3389. Inscribed and signed by Cook in 1912 on the front free endpaper, at the Lotos Club in New York City. Cook's narrative of his shoe-string expedition on which he claimed to have reached the north pole. The first edition is much scarcer than the 1912 and 1913 reprints. Although Cook signed quite a few copies of the reprints, a nice copy of the true first edition is much more difficult to find these days. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 128747

Bibliografische Details

Titel: My Attainment of the Pole. Being the Record ...

Verlag: New York Polar Publishing Co. 1911

Erscheinungsdatum: 1911

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: very good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage