Here are the 25 books about the Polar regions - The North and South Poles - and exploration in those regions that are in stock as of September 15, 2007. These books are always a favorite of mine since I have worked in Antarctica and made two trips to the bottom of the earth and walked around the South Pole. And, I have also been above the Arctic Circle. Just make a note of the Order No(s) of the books you would like to order, and they are easy to order from Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire.
1. Amundsen, Roald, MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1927 1st ed, B&W frontis, maps, 282pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE ON JACKET, From the dustjacket flap, "Roald Amundsen is recognized as the foremost among living explorers. He discovered the South Pole; and he is the only man ever to have reached both Poles. His career reached its climax last year in his flight over the North Pole in the dirigible NORGE." A clean and tight, bright blue cloth with original dustjacket. Dustjacket had been folded and kept inside the book, thus it exhibits some fold lines one vertical line on the front and rear panels, and one horizontal about 1/3 down from the top edge. OVERALL, AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY !!!, (Order No: 47300 ), $400.00
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Lansing, Alfred, ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1959) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 282pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 14798 ), $6.00
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.c. 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. Neider, Charles, BEYOND CAPE HORN: TRAVELS IN THE ANTARCTIC, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, (1980) 1st ptg, color ill., maps, 387pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871562332, (Order No: 17206 ), $4.50
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. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. Sherrard, D. G., TO ANTARCTICA WITH THE ROYAL NAVY, Vantage Press, New York, (1980) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 122pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533044480 The true story of the author's voyage to Antarctica aboard HMS Protector of the British Royal Navy., (Order No: 48263 ), $40.00
20. 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
21. 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
22. Talcott, Dudley Vaill, NORTH OF NORTH CAPE: THE ARCTIC VOYAGES OF THE 'NORKAP II', John Lane The Bodley Head, London, (1936), B&W illustrations, 320pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) - one signature bound upside-down, Contents include: We Buy A Ship; The Magic Valley; Sealskins for the Shoemaker; To Hartford Over the Old Viking Route; Specimens for Study; Coffee and Wienerbrod; The Ocean's Silver; The House on the Hill; Record Head Hunters; Financial Statement; Back to Earth., (Order No: 44857 ), $35.00
23. 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 ), $25.00
24. Welzl, Jan (translated by Paul Selver) (foreword by Karel Capek), THIRTY YEARS IN THE GOLDEN NORTH, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1932, fold-out map, 336pp, good, light blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 41286 ), $5.00
25. Young, Oran R., CREATING REGIMES: ARCTIC ACCORDS AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1998) 1st ptg, 230pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801434378 Oran R. Young has been a key participant in recent debates among international relations scholars about the dynamics of rule-making and rule-following in international society., (Order No: 38369 ), $5.00