Item 1The Voyage of the Narwhal
New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. First. Signed first edition. 399 pp.
Exploration
Works describing travels and discoveries of those traversing the Arctic.
Item 35Icebound
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.....
Item 24The Battle of Ink and Ice
New York: Viking, 2023. First. Hardcover. [6.25x9.5in]; 387 pp., 44 plates of black/white images; blue cloth over boards, gilt-stamped title and author on spine, new, unread. The book won the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award and was listed as a New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2023" as well as.....
Item 20Adventures in Polar Reading
New York: The Grolier Club of New York, 2019. First. Hardcover. 8vo 256 p. (7.25x9.35") Gilt-stamped title on cover and spine, black cloth boards, frontispiece, Arctic and Antarctic endpaper maps, eleven additional maps and illustrations within. David and Deirdre Stam were well-known figures to students of the Arctic. Their book explores.....
Item 28Historical Atlas of the Arctic
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 is fine, mylar-wrapped. Contains more than 300 original maps to illustrate five centuries of polar exploration. The author offers.....
Item 29Historical Atlas of the Arctic
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.....
Item 11To the Edges of the Earth
New York: HarperCollins, 2018. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 329 pp. large octavo [23 cms] black cloth-covered boards, silver title on spine. The book contains maps of three explorations: to the North Pole, the South Pole, and a portion of the Himalayan Karakoram Range, along with three sets of black and white.....
Item 47The Voyage of the Icebergs
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.....
Item 44Polar Exposure
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.....
Item 19Barrow's Boys
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. First. Hardcover. First American edition, 8vo, 489 pp. (6.25x9.25"), black cloth boards, silver-stamped title and author's name on spine; black and white plates between pp. 142-143 and pp. 335-336.The book offers lesser-known stories of British exploration to the Arctic (as well as Antarctica and.....
Item 46Ice Island
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.....
Item 12In the Kingdom of Ice
New York: Doubleday, 2014. First. Hardbound. 8vo, large format [23.5 cms]. Half white-colored cloth with gray paper-covered boards, 456 pp. Endpapers carry color reproduction of William Bradford's Icebergs in the Arctic (1882). The text is also illustrated with historic photographs and maps between pp. 236-237. In 1879 a New York publisher.....
Item 43Tuning the Rig
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.....
Item 45Arctic Ambitions
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.....
Item 5Ada Blackjack
New York: Hyperion, 2003. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 6.25 'x 9.25" hardcover, red-colored cloth boards, 431 pp., maps of Wrangel Island on front free endpaper, maps of Arctic Ocean region on back free endpaper, 29 black-and-white phots between pp. 180-181. Dust jacket has half-inch tear at top spine with evidence of.....
Item 18The Ice Master
New York: Hyperion, 2000. First. hardcover. 8vo, (6.3x9.5") xiv, 402 pp., 37 black/white photos between pp 274 and 275. Maps on front and back endpapers, black cloth boards and 1/4 linen spine, with copper-stamped title. The Karluk carried the largest Arctic mission in history, staffed with scientists as well as crew.....
Item 27Coming into the Country
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1977. First. Hardcover. [8.25x5.75], 438 pp., frontispiece map and endpaper maps of Alaska. In green cloth-covered boards, blind-stamped observation tower on front cover, gold-colored stamping on spine. Binding is tight, but text carries occasional reader's notes between pp. 108-174. Price-clipped dust jacket with minimal.....
Item 48Polar Wives
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.
Item 23Reluctant Conquest
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 352 pp, (6.5x9.5") blue boards, silver-stamped title and author's name on spine. Like new. Lavelle has written a comprehensive history of U.S. involvement in the Arctic, beginning with the Alaska purchase and ending with the current concern over the Arctic's geostrategic importance.....
Item 9Ghosts of Cape Sabine
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First. Hardcover. 8vo. 354 pp., 15 x 23 cms. Map of the Arctic region on front and back pastedown and free endpapers, black and white photo section between pp 146-147. Guttridge specialized in Arctic expeditions and spent seven years combing through primary sources to.....
Item 52The Coast of Northeast Greenland
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.....
Item 51The Fjord Region of East Greenland
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.
Item 8A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2004. Reissue of original 1908 edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 61/4" x 91/8", Hardcover, Fine/Fine. 271 pp, black paper. An exact reproduction of the 1908 volume by Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard (Mina Benson Hubbard) including a facsimile of her original map, bound to the paste-down endpaper, and nine additional.....
Item 13Frozen in Time
New York: HarperCollins, 2013. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 391 pp, [14 cmx 21cms]. Black paper covered boards , gold stamped title on spine. On Nov. 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane went down on the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 crashed while looking for it, and then a Grumman.....
Item 14Frozen in Time
New York: HarperCollins, 2013. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 391 pp, 15.5 cm x 23 cms. Black paper covered boards, gold stamped title on spine. RARE, DOUBLE-INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY:Inscription 1 "For Sam, No one has influenced my photography more than you. You taught me to see and to think photographs in a new and.....