Baker Lake prints & print-drawings 1970 - 76. February 27 to April 17
Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983. 91p., plates in color and b&w, oblong 8 x 10 inch decorated wraps; mild edgewear, faintly sunned. More
Cat.No: 62022
Arctic & Antarctic
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Moscow - Vancouver: 1937, the 50th anniversary of the first USSR - USA flight over the north pole
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1987. 22p., archival photos interspersed in the largepoint text; staplebound 6.2x8.5 inch oblong wraps, a very good copy. The sizeable typeface suggests a young adult audience. Andrei Tupolev designed the special plane, which looked uncannily like the U2 three decades later, a U2 with a nose-prop..... More
Cat.No: 165534
A rescue in the arctic; article in Soviet Union Review, vol. VI, no. 9
Washington, D. C: The Soviet Union Information Bureau, September, 1928. Pp.122-127 (of 122-136), photoillustrated, staplebound 11 x 8.5 inch magazine self-wraps, coated paperstock throughout, vertical crease, a bit crinkly. Wreck of dirigible Nobile in the arctic. Russian icebreakers and airplanes were sent out. "Two Soviet expeditions were organized for the..... More
Cat.No: 74693
Out of Antarctica, reflections on the origin of peoples
London: Richmond Editions, 2004. ix, 326p., heavy coated paperstock throughout with numerous color and b&w site and exhibit photography, first edition stiffish laminated frenchfold wraps, 8.5x6.7 inches. A fine unblemished copy of a nicely designed and produced book; it is a posthumous study by a pioneer in the reconstruction of..... More
Cat.No: 177981
A Antartica e os Desafios do Futuro
Rio de Janeiro - RJ: Capemi Editora e Grafica Ltda. 1982. 120p., illustrated with a few line maps, paperbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy blue frenchfold wraps; cello-glaze has a couple tiny bubbles on the back cover, clean and sound, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 192927
Knik, Matanuska, Susitna: a visual history of the valleys
Palmer, Alaska: Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 1994. 235p., 10.5x7.5 inch glossy decorated wraps. Second printing. Black and white photos, period and contemporary, line maps and floorplans and elevations of dwellings and public buildings. Item is a handsome creation about an unusual people, but.. carelessly "perfectbound," meaning insubstantially glued-up, and its textblock has..... More
Cat.No: 207067
Antarctica. January 15 - February 23, 1991
New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc., 1991. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 22p., introduction, vita and perhaps 16 captioned plates on high-gloss paperstock. Softbound in oblong 8.5x11 inch stapled grey wraps with slight external hints of handling, no ownership or other marks (except our SKU), a very good copy. Lots of aerial..... More
Cat.No: 228699
![A Flight to Cape Chidley, 1935 [With separate map, Pl. I, facing p.56] reprinted from The...](/pictures/thumb/180974.jpg?v=1519182645)
A Flight to Cape Chidley, 1935 [With separate map, Pl. I, facing p.56] reprinted from The Geographical Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, January, 1936
New York: American Geographical Society, 1936. Paperback. Offprint, pp.48-58, large folded map in color bound in following text, b&w photographic plates with text on coated paperstock; paperback item in plain printed grey 10x6.5 inch wraps. Mildest signs of any handling or age, map is unmolested, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 180974
Gathering voices; finding strength to help our children
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 1995. Paperback. xvi, 189p., wraps, old bookseller stickers on rear wrap else very good condition, illus., 8.5x10 inches. Text in English and Innu aimun on facing pages. At head of title page: The Davis Inlet People's Inquiry. More
Cat.No: 214376
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578. Edited by James McDermott
London: Published by Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, 2001. Hardcover. xi, 268p., maps and illustrations, hardbound in dark blue cloth boards and plain printed dust jacket, 10x7 inches. Entirely clean and sound, a fine copy; the first edition of this first comprehensive assemblage of all eyewitness reports. Hakluyt Society series..... More
Cat.No: 193391
The life of Matthew Henson
New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Company, 1969. [32]p., profusely illus., wraps, paper slightly browned, minor edge wear else very good condition. Comic book with art by Joan Bacchus, Howard Darden and Ezra Jackson, among others. Benjamin Quarles served as consultant. Golden legacy #5. More
Cat.No: 38848
Studies in Siberian Shamanism
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. iv, 229p., illustrated with numerous scattered diagrams and plates (these on inserted coated stock); wraps are edgeworn and irregularly faded, a small light bump affects all top corner-tips; binding is sound, no markings within, a good or good-only copy. Arctic Institute of North America..... More
Cat.No: 227580
Ahdoolo! The biography of Matthew A. Henson
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1963. Hardcover. 221p. + 8p. photos, first edition, cloth-bound boards, Page edges somewhat soiled, unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 98513
The American philatelist,; July 1970, vol. 84, no. 7; exclusive feature, Czechoslovakia's 1920 T. G. Masaryk issue by Zdenek Kvasnicka
State College PA: The Journal of the American Philatelic Society, 1970. Entire issue; professionally cased into titled buckram boards with utilitarian titling, marbled endsheets over cloth hinges, a nice job. Cover titling promotes an article by Malcolm MacGregor, "South Polar expoloration and explorers" rather than the featured story. Pp. 569-664..... More
Cat.No: 166941
Kolya
New York: MindGlow Media, 2007. Paperback. 53p., memoir, very good first edition vanity press trade paperback illustrated with author's color photos, white pictorial wraps. New Zealand film maker meets a young orphan boy in arctic Siberia and becomes his surrogate 'father', taking him back to the South Pacific. More
Cat.No: 220831
Arasuka: Meiji Daigaku Arasuka Gakujutsu Chosadan
Tokyo: Kokon Shoin, 1961. Hardcover. 267p., hardcover, 10.5x7 inch red cloth boards titled in gilt characters, text in Japanese; corner bumped, minor edge foxing, in tattered remains of a dustjacket. Folded color map (Aleutian area emphasized) in rear pocket, very good in a poor dj. From the Meiji University Scientific..... More
Cat.No: 209358
Pluck and Luck. The Ice Breaker Boys, or Cutting Their Way to the Pole, and Other Stories. March 14, 1928
New York: Westbury Publishing Co., 1928. 30p., newsprint cover and text, staplebound 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps. Very acidic and fragile, but complete and can be handled and read. Pluck and Luck no. 1554. More
Cat.No: 226554
Scientific Results from the Antarctic Walk Environmental Research Expedition 1991-1993
Tokyo: Antarctic Environmental Research Expedition Organizing Committee, 1995. Unpaginated preliminaries, 258p., illustrated with line maps, with b&w photography (snow surfaces a favorite, plus team members using the special devices that allow one to take a sub-zero crap), tables and graphs, and many mysterious numbers. Hardbound in 10x7 inch green papered..... More
Cat.No: 230376
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