Published by Invisible Cities Press LLC, 2001
ISBN 10: 1931229015 ISBN 13: 9781931229012
Language: English
Seller: Boards & Wraps, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Barcode sticker to the front. Shows minor wear to edges and corners. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages.
Published by Candace Press, Grand Rapids, MI, 1996
ISBN 10: 1889073091 ISBN 13: 9781889073095
Language: English
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Grand Rapids, MI: Candace Press, 1996. First Thus. Twelve octavo volumes. Frontispiece to each volume. Green boards stamped in gilt; green silk ribbons; all edges gilt; moire endpapers. Boards show very light shelfwear with a few minor bumps. Bindings sound and interiors unmarked; a Near Fine set.
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Black and white plates (illustrator). First Edition. Matthew Henson, a native of Charles County, Maryland, was Robert Peary's indispensable right-hand man on seven Arctic expeditions over nearly 23 years. This is Henson's scarce original account of the 1908-1909 expedition which was credited with reaching the North Pole on April 7, 1909. Today it is generally acknowledged (and claimed herein) that Henson was the first of the party to reach the spot claimed as the geographic North Pole. Peary did...
Published by Fredrick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition, first printing. xxii, 200pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with photographic frontispiece mounted on front board, lettered in white. About Very Good with speckled staining to boards; toning to spine, crimped ends, rubbed white lettering. Moderate foxing to deckled edge; offset to endsheets from binder's adhesive, contents tanned. A memoir by one of the six men on the 1908-09 Peary expedition that was believed to have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole....
Published by Fredrick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Good only due to a number of stains on cloth, a few bumps, a little bowing, and some wear. Small light marginal stain to last few dozen pages, a few foxed pages early on, offsetting to two facing pages. A memoir by one of the six men on the 1908-09 Peary expedition that was believed to have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole.
Published by Fredrick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Matthew Henson on the page following the half title, inscribed to former owner and dated 3/7/54, about a year before his death. xx, [ii],200 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with photographic frontispiece mounted on front board, lettered in white. Near Fine with a little rubbing to spine lettering and edges, front hinge a little free, a few reading smudges, aborted inscription by Henson on half title with only the...