[Otsego Hall, Cooperstown: 1848]. Published: London, 29 March 1849 by Bentley (vol. III, pp. 195-6). Two and a.... Read More about Autograph manuscript page: The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers
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Washington: 3131 O Street NW, [ca. 1930]. Saying that he does not have a photograph available at that time due to similar requests but that Halpern might check the local library and look at his book “Reminiscences.” The eminent arctic explorer and American Army Officer. He commanded the American expedition..... Read More about Autotyped note signed “A. W. Greely,” with 4 manuscript typographical error corrections
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London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, [1947]. Later Edition. Read More about The Great White South: or With Scott in the Antarctic. With an Introduction by Lady Scott
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. Facsimile reissue of the 1914 edition, with an added preface. Read More about Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party. With a new foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs
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London: A.W. Webster, 156, Regent Street, 1835. First Edition. “In 1829, frustrated by the lack of progress [in search of a northwest passage], a philanthropic gin distiller, Felix Booth, sponsored John Ross’s second expedition. With his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command, Ross sailed down Prince Regent Sound in search..... Read More about Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic...
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New York: Cassell and Co, 1885. First edition. Alaska. Read More about Nimrod in the North, or, Hunting and Fishing Adventures in the Arctic Regions
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. First edition. Read More about Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. First edition. Inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper by Arthur W. Elting, a member of the hunting party. "For Jack and Mrs. Perry-my companions in some trails that have been as ---and troublesome as they described in this volume-with a...... Read More about Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson [Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood], 1915. First edition of the poet's posthumous second book. Shackleton's copy. Shackleton's copy of Rupert Brooke's landmark collection, gifted to him shortly after the rescue of the crew of the Endurance. A gift inscription on the front free endpaper..... Read More about 1914 and Other Poems
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Penzance: [ca. 1909]. This large vintage photograph showing a horse-drawn parade float model of Shackleton's Nimrod with the ship’s name and “Lieut Shackleton in Antarctic Regions” painted on the side. Manning the float are 6 young men and a small boy, all in cold weather gear. It's a wonderful demonstration..... Read More about “Lieut Shackleton in Antarctic Regions”
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First edition, signed issue (printed for Explorer's Club); #69 of 200 numbered copies, printed for the Explorers Club, signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Rockwell Kent and Stephen Leacock [Arctic Bibliography 16873]. EXPLORERS CLUB ISSUE (200 NUMBERED & SIGNED COPIES) SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT/ VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON/..... Read More about UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF THE ARCTIC by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Introduction by Stephen Leacock...
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London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Newell, Peter. First English edition, published shortly after the American edition. This work had originally appeared in "Harper's Magazine" Futuristic travel to the North Pole and to the Center of the Earth. A futuristic novel of arctic submarine exploration and journeys to..... Read More about The Great Stone of Sardis. A Novel
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St Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1932. First edition. Inscribed to Helen and Michael Lerner, "For Helen and Michael Lerner with every good wish to Friends my father thought of most kindly, Richard L. Sutton, Jr. January 22nd, 1954." Read More about An Arctic Safari With Camera and Rifle in the Land of the Midnight Sun
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Washington, D.C: GPO, 1886-1887. First editions. Read More about Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska. Results of Investigations made Chiefly in the...
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Washington, D.C: Oct. 19, [ca. 1905]. Righting a Wrong to Portsmouth. Walter Wellman (1858 -1934) was an American journalist, explorer, aëronaut, founder of the Cincinnati Evening Post in 1879, and after 1884 became the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Herald, and then the Times-Herald. Here, he corrects a misstatement regarding..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("Walter Wellman") to C.A. Hazlitt of Portsmouth, N.H.,...
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Washington, D.C: Sunday, n.d. [ca. 1911?]. " ... my adventure in the ice ... " Walter Wellman (1858 -1934) was an American journalist, explorer, aeronaut, founder of the Cincinnati Evening Post in 1879, and after 1884 became the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Herald, and then the Times-Herald. Here, he..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("Walter Wellman") to Mr. Hill, submitting a manuscript and...
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Washington, D.C: Nov 5, 1893. Walter Wellman (1858 –1934) was an American journalist, explorer, aeronaut, founder of the Cincinnati Evening Post in 1879, and after 1884 became the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Herald, and then the Times-Herald. “He traveled to the Bahamas in 1892, seeking the landfall of Columbus;..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Walter Wellman”), to Mr. Hill, expressing his regret that “the...
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New York: The Century Co, 1910. First edition. Account of hunting adventures and the life style of the Eskimos in in the Arctic by this friend of Peary's and Cook's, described in his sub-title as "the battle for existence through the long Arctic night." A great hunting book, an exciting..... Read More about Hunting with the Eskimos
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