New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. [9.5 x 6.5 ins] 296 pp., black and white and color photos, maps, references, reading list, white cloth boards and blue lettering on spine. As new. An important book by a prominent researcher and highly accomplished author who presents his.....
New York: American Geographical Society, 1948. First. Hardcover. [10.2 x 7 ins] 339 pp., 194 b/w photos, graphs, charts, and maps. Includes chapters by co-authors on geology, geomorphology, flora, hydrographic and topographical surveys, tidal and magnetic observations. Gray cloth boards with black title boxes with gilt stamped titles on cover and.....
New York: American Geographical Society, 1935. First. Hardcover. [10.2 x 7 ins] 369 pp., First edition. 363 b/w photos, maps, and illustrations, plus fold-out chart. Faint stain on rear board, near fine, errata slip tipped in.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. First. Hardcover. [8.5 x 6 ins], xii, 788 pp., illustrated with black-and-white maps by Richard Edes Harrison and color end-paper maps of the Arctic and Antarctica. Very good condition. Stefansson (1879-1962) was a distinguished explorer and anthropologist. During his lifetime, he was considered the.....
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1922. First. Hardcover. [9.25 x 6.25 ins], xxxi , 784pp., with index, and 113 b/w plates, 7 maps, plus two large color fold-out maps housed in the rear pocket (maps are unused, and Fine). Original blue cloth, with gilt titles on cover and spine. Shelf.....
Vancouver, British Columbia: Greystone Books, 2012. First. Softcover. Only published as softcover, forward by Jon Bowermaster, 347 pp. Book explores the lives of Josephine Peary, Eva Nansen, Eleanor Anne Franklin, Jane Franklin, Emily Shackleton, Kathleen Scott, and Marie Herbert.
New Haven: Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2002. First. Hardcover. [7¾" - 9¾"] 96 pp.; blue cloth boards w/silver lettering on cover and spine; 41 color and 15 black and white illustrations. Frontispiece by Church, both endpapers with blue-toned iceberg sketches. Book, fine condition, dust jacket has.....
Boston: New England Aquarium and Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, 2003. First. Hardcover. [10.75 x 11.5] oblong folio book of photos and text. 75 pp., color & b/w plates, text ills., maps, references. Navy blue cloth boards with silver lettering on cover and spine. Book is fine, dust jacket shows shelf war.....
Seattle: Anchorage Museum and University of Washington Press, 2015. First. Hardcover. [8.75 x 10.75], xvii, 429 pp. olive-green cloth boards, copper stamped lettering on spine, book, museum quality reproduction, fine condition, dust jacket fine. From the publisher: "Captain James Cook is justly famous for his explorations of the southern Pacific Ocean.....
Watertown, Massachusetts: Charlesbridge, 2022. First. Hardcover. [9.75 x 7.25 in] x, 259 pp., boards are blue-tine photo, white title lettering on spine. Blue-toned photos on both endpapers, numerous color photos throughout the book. Book is very good, unread but significant bump on lower right corner; dust jacket has small tear.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First. Hardcover. [9.5 x 6.5 ins] x, 281 pp, maps on both endpapers, blue cloth boards with siler stamped lettering on spine. Book is rare, near fine, very slight sunning along top cover; dust jacket is clipped, else fine. The book, in journal format.....
New York: Ecco (HarperCollins), 2002. First. Hardcover. [6.25 x 9.25 ins], 270 pp. Frontispiece, maps on endpapers, 13 color photos of Alaskan wilderness and wildlife, gilt lettering on black & tan covers. New and unread. The memoir chronicles Schooler's friendship with Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino, and their quest to find the.....
Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2021. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25 in], 407 pp., black boards with silver stamped lettering on spine. Book is Fine; dust jacket has slight wear at upper edge, otherwise fine. This historical fiction novel is set in the 1850 and revolves around a team of thirteen women searchers hired to.....
Worcestershire, Great Britain: Images Publishing, 1996. First. Hardcover. [9.5x6.25 in] 191 pp. Black cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on spine., with black/white photos. Book is fine, unread; dust jacket shows minor wear at edges.The sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 with the loss of more than.....
Canton, Massachusetts: Scientific History Publications/USA (Watson), 2002. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25 in] ix, 373 pp, with illustrations, black cloth boards with silver stamped lettering on spine. Scarce. Very good, but evidence of underlining in chapters 2 and 3. The book is an anthology of nine essays reflecting Danish and Swedish scholarship on.....
New York: Doubleday, 2003. First. Hardcover. [9.5x6.5 in] xl, 677 pp. brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine, 33 black and white photos. Book is very good, some soil and staining at edges, dust jacket very good, unclipped. From the publisher: "Anne Applebaum has now undertaken, for the first time.....
Vancouver, British Columbia: Purich Books (UBC Press), 2017. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.6 in] 336, olive green boards with silver lettering on cover and spine. Map illustrations within. The author is a Canadian politician who spent 25 years in public life. He spent two years in the House of Commons as chief of.....
New York: (Smithsonian Books) HarperCollins, 2009. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25 in.] 208 pp., blue and white cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, maps embedded in text block. Ex-library, but good clean copy, library stamp in title page, tape removed from boards. Dust jacket very good, slight bumping at bottom. After the.....
New York: Scribner, 2021. First. Hardcover. [9.5x6.25in] 302 pp. black cloth boards, gold lettering on spine, maps on both endpapers, plus eleven maps within. The story of sixteenth-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his 16-member crew who went farther north than any previous Europeans but ended up shipwrecked on the Russian.....
New York: Scribners, 2015. First. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25in], 291 pp., beige and black boards, gold lettering on spine. Marshall argues that geopolitics is constrained by geography, and that it is impossible to understand international political events without a geographic context. He uses ten maps (including one of Greenland and the Arctic) to.....
New York: Norton, 2022. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. [9.25x6.25], 256 pp., black cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. The original was published in German in 2019. When the book appeared in English in 2022, the New York Times called it "an idiosyncratic inquiry into the power of the north.....
New York: Picador/St. Martin's Press, 2001. First. Hardcover. [8.5x5.75], 310 pp., black cloth cover with siler stamped lettering on spine. Book fine, unread. Dust jacket fine.Historical novel set in Greenland. Compared with "Catch 22" this debut by Griesemer is rooted in fact, about an Army medical facility that houses the.....
New York: Doubleday, 1958. First. Hardcover. [8.5x5.75], 411 pp, black cloth cover with silver lettering on spine. Book discolored along edges, back hinge shows tears. Dust jacket price-clipped, worn edges, else fine. Ice Palace was hailed as "the first all-Alaska-novel," providing a thinly disguised fictional plea for statehood, which came the.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2009. First. Hardcover. [8.5x5.75in], xii, 256 pp. ,frontispiece, maps, and 33 black/white images. Brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Book has tight binding, but occasional marginalia from pp 111-154, otherwise like new. Jacket has slight rubbing at edges. William Hensley.....
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. Folio [12.75x9.75ins] , 208 pp., black cloth-bound, silver-stamped lettering on spine. Book is near-fine, bumped corners but tightly bound. Dust jacket has minor edge-creasing, mylar-wrapped. Contains more than 300 original maps to illustrate five centuries of polar exploration. The author.....