Works by/about women in the Arctic, works about Inuit and other underrepresented people who lived, traveled, or worked in the Arctic.
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: 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Pantheon, 2001. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 6" x 9", hardcover, blue-colored paper, silver stamped lettering on spine, maps of Greenland on front and rear paste down and free end papers. 380 pp. INSCRIBED "for Craig - All the best - Gretel, Nov. 26, 2001." The book is the story.....
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.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Nordic calligraphy by Gun Larson. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 558pp. large octavo [24 cm]. Gold-colored cloth with green paper covered boards, decorated with gold motif and gold title on the spine. Maps on both paste-down and free endpapers. The novel is set in fourteenth century Greenland.....
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.....
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.....
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: 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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: Norton, 2017. First. Hardcover. 8vo, xxxii, 384 pp, tinted and color photos between pp 192-193. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering. Text block carries occasional underlining from previous owner pp 5-31, else fine. Dust jacket slightly rubbed top and bottom, else fine.Watson is a Canadian writer and photojournalist.....
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: Tarcher/Putnam. First. Hardcover. 8vo, 5.25" x 9", hardcover, gold-colored cloth boards with gold-stamped title on spine, 188pp, maps and illustrations. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Sheila Nickerson is the author of Disappearance: A Map, two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and poet laurate of Alaska from.....
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.....
Boston: David R. Godine, 2013. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8v0, 168 pp, with black and white photographs, preface by James Russell and Llewellyn Howland III; forward by Michael Lapides; and introduction by Russell A. Porter. From the publisher: "A landmark in the annals of American photography and polar adventure, William.....
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.....