1. Brent, Peter, CAPTAIN SCOTT AND THE ANTARCTIC TRAGEDY, Saturday Review Press, New York, (1974), about 100 B&W ill, 16pp col., 223pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871502587 The story of the tragic and heroic death in 1912 of Robert Falcon Scott in the wastes of the Antarctic has ever since captured people's imagination., (Order No: 10773 ), $15.00
2. Byrd, Richard E., LITTLE AMERICA: AERIAL EXPLORATION IN THE ANTARCTIC THE FLIGHT TO THE SOUTH POLE, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930 5th ptg, 74 B&W illustrations, maps, 422pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 3862 ), $10.00
3. Chapman, Walker, THE LONELIEST CONTINENT: THE STORY OF ANTARCTIC DISCOVERY, NY Graphic Society Pub., Ltd, Greenwich, CT, (1964) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 279pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 17208 ), $2.50
4. Chopra, Judith Wright, SOMETHING WORTH DOING - THE SUB-ARCTIC VOYAGE OF AQUA STAR, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1995) 1st ptg, color illustrations, 170pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393034461, (Order No: 51093 ), $3.50
5. Corner, George W., DOCTOR KANE OF THE ARCTIC SEAS, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1972), B&W illustrations, 306pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0877220220 It is with Kane's most celebrated adventures that this book is chiefly concerned: two expeditions to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin., (Order No: 54707 ), $10.00
6. Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1933) 29th ptg, B&W illustrations, 69pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB w/minimal marks, First published in 1909. From a small country library, and never circulated., (Order No: 52798 ), $5.00
7. Hall, Sam, THE FOURTH WORLD: THE HERITAGE OF THE ARCTIC AND ITS DESTRUCTION, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987 1st Amer, 4 B&W maps, 240pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394559428 Sam Hall, who knows the Arctic at first hand, tells its story., (Order No: 14429 ), $2.50
8. Herbert, Wally, THE NOOSE OF LAURELS: ROBERT E. PEARY AND THE RACE TO THE NORTH POLE, Atheneum, New York, 1989 1st ptg, B&W ill, B&W maps & diagrams, 395pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0689120346 Here, Wally Herbert, one of the finest polar explorers of our time, takes on the task of analyzing Peary's achievements., (Order No: 21254 ), $4.50
9. Illingworth, Frank, NORTH OF THE CIRCLE, Philosophical Library, New York, (1951), B&W photos, 254pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A look at the life above the Arctic Circle., (Order No: 12149 ), $4.00
10. Kane, Elisha Kent, ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, 1853, '54, '55 - TWO VOLUME SET, Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia, 1856, upwards of 300 B&W ill, maps, very good, rebound in 2001 in brown cloth - clean and tight set, Exceptionally nice set, newly rebound in brown cloth with new marbled endpapers. Hard to find any foxing, only minimal on a few pages. Volume I, 464pp; Volume II, 467pp., (Order No: 2592 ), $185.00
11. Langone, John, LIFE AT THE BOTTOM: THE PEOPLE OF ANTARCTICA, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1977) 1st ed, 262pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316154263 Focuses on the people--scientists, servicemen, and civilians--who choose to live and work along the earth's final frontier, Antarctica., (Order No: 45720 ), $5.00
12. Lee, Charles, SNOW, ICE AND PENGUINS - A CAVALCADE OF ANTARCTIC ADVENTURES, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, (1950), 417pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 41285 ), $7.00
13. Markham, Clements R., THE LANDS OF SILENCE - A HISTORY OF ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION, Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, CT, n.d. c1990s, 539pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as republished, ISBN 1578980976 A quality reprint of the first edition published in 1921 by the Cambridge University Press., (Order No: 44218 ), $20.00
14. Moss, Sanford (text by); deLeiris, Lucia (illustrations by), NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, Columbia University Press, New York, 1988, B&W illustrations, 208pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231062680 "Unfolds the intricate, interconnecting chain that makes life possible on this land of superlatives and extremes.", (Order No: 55746 ), $8.00
15. Perry, Richard, THE POLAR WORLDS, Taplinger Publishing Co., New York, (1973) 1st ed, B&W drawings, 316pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0800864050 Second volume in author's MANY WORLDS OF WILDLIFE SERIES, showing parallels between the physical environments of the Arctic and Antarctic regions., (Order No: 12148 ), $4.00
16. Rawlins, Dennis, PEARY AT THE NORTH POLE - FACT OR FICTION?, Robert B. Luce, Inc., Washington - New York, (1973), B&W illustrations, 320pp, good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) EX-LIB, ISBN 0883310422 Rawlins here presents indubitable proof that, even if Peary did reach the Pole, his scientific and navigational records wre so inadequate that his claim should be revoked., (Order No: 54741 ), $7.50
17. Savours, Ann (edited by) and Scott, Peter (introduced by), SCOTT'S LAST VOYAGE: THROUGH THE ANTARCTIC CAMERA OF HERBERT PONTING, Praeger Publishers, New York, (1975), B&W and color illustrations, 160pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0275526704 This book tells the story of Scott's last expedition. Herbert Ponting was the "camera artist" of the expedition, and his photographs are a marvelous record of this epic exploration., (Order No: 45723 ), $7.50
18. Scherman, Katharine, DAUGHTER OF FIRE: A PORTRAIT OF ICELAND, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1976) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 364pp, good, blue cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0316773255, (Order No: 17210 ), $2.50
19. Schiller, Barbara, THE VINLANDERS' SAGA, Kaye & Ward, London, (1969), ill. by William Bock, 71pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The great Icelandic saga of the discovery of North America (Greenland and Vinland) is a tale of incredible daring and adventure. With colour and humour, Barbara Schiller puts this remarkable epic in story form for young readers., (Order No: 49926 ), $5.00
20. Shackleton, Ernest, SOUTH: THE STORY OF SHACKLETON'S LAST EXPEDITION 1914-1917, William Heinemann, London, 1919 1st ed, color frontis, B&W ill., 368pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) nice clean and tight copy, Nice clean and tight copy of this classic Antarctic work. Acidic wartime paper has yellowed as usual. All plates are present, map has small tear (on white space only far away from the map) from improper opening, pages 151-160 have small corner fold and minute tear. Overall a handsome copy., (Order No: 54816 ), $1750.00
21. Solomon, Susan, THE COLDEST MARCH: SCOTT'S FATAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (2001) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 383pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300089678 This riveting book tells the tragic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team who in November 1911 began a trek across the snows of Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole., (Order No: 37919 ), $15.00
22. Spufford, Francis, I MAY BE SOME TIME: ICE AND THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1997) 1st ed, 372pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 031217442X A richly engrossing cultural history of the human obsession with ice, Eskimos, and polar exploration., (Order No: 34268 ), $11.50
23. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, HUNTERS OF THE GREAT NORTH, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, (1922), B&W illustrations, 301pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, Very nice clean and tight copy. Warmly inscribed on the first blank page by the author on Thanksgiving Day 1937. Stefansson tells how he became an explorer and of his first trip into the Arctic., (Order No: 8515 ), $100.00
24. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, NOT BY BREAD ALONE, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1946 1st ptg, 339pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), In 1906, Vilhjalmur Stefansson found himself a lone European among the Mackenzie River Eskimos, who had no other food than meat and fish. This book tells about his experiences, and about the adventures of other Arctic explorers, fur trappers, Indians, and soldiers, who have thrived on an exclusive diet of meat or fish, or meat and fish., (Order No: 57955 ), $200.00
25. Tremaine, Marie (edited by), ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY - VOLUME 12, VOL. XII - A-Z NO. 69,456 - 76,725, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1965, 1392pp, good+, gray buckram cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB, Prepared by The Arctic Institute of North America with suppport of Government Agencies of The United States and Canada., (Order No: 48977 ), $15.00