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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922). South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919.
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922). South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919.
8vo. Half-title, color-printed frontispiece, numerous photographic plates, folding map (short tear with loss to blank margin), errata slip. (Text slightly browned as usual,.) Original dark blue silver-decorated cloth, top edge stained blue (recased, some light rubbing, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Robert P. Gibb (gift inscription 1919); Henry Sotheran Ltd. (bookseller’s label).
FIRST EDITION of Shackleton’s account of his ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. SHACKLETON’S SIGNATURE on a card tipped-in. Conrad p.224; Renard 1460; Rosove 308.A1; Spence 1107; Taurus 105.