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
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
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
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
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
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. Text in Portuguese. More
Cat.No: 192927
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London: Dulwich College, 2000. Paperback. x, 158p., profuse captioned period photography (&c) amidst running commentaries, softbound in 10.5x8 inch pictorial wraps. half-title bears an inked presentation inscription, else unmarked, clean, and quite sound. More
Cat.No: 260413
Paris: A.R.E.O., 1984. Paperback. 48p., unfastened folio cardstock leaves (doubles; closed these measure 13.5x10 inches) enclosed in a decorated cardstock folder, which has a sturdy slipcase, everything in good order. The running text is in facsimile holograph, text dodges between or sometimes enfolds the color plates. Pagination is applied to..... More
Cat.No: 250985
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
Tokyo: Kokon Shoin 古今書院, 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..... More
Cat.No: 209358
New York: Westbury Publishing Co., 1928. Magazine. 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
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