2 volumes, 8vo (224 x 143 mm). 2 frontispieces, 46 plates (6 colored), 5 maps (4 folding), 10 folding panoramas. (Slight minor marginal spotting.) Publisher's tan linen-backed boards uncut, printed spine labels (some light staining and wear, labels lightly soiled and chipped, horizontal tear along lower portion of spine panel linen vol. II). Provenance:Florence Tyson (signatures, June 1923); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.

FIRST EDITION of one of the classics of exploration literature and a highly readable account, the title of which was suggested by its unacknowledged editor and the author's friend, George Bernard Shaw. Conrad, p.173; Rosove 71.A1 ("The finest polar book ever written...uncommon"); Spence 27.