Books about international relations and efforts by nation states and other entities to govern, assert control, or contest territory in the Arctic region at the unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral levels.
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: 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: 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.....
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 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.....
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: 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.....
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: 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.....