PRIESTLEY, Raymond E. Antarctic Adventure, Scott's Northern Party. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. First edition, 8vo (218 x 136mm.) Portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, numerous plates, 3 folding maps. (Light browning, some spotting, occasional minor soiling, presentation copy blind-stamp to title-page and preface.) Original blue pictorial cloth blocked in silver, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and scuffed, spine faded, lower joint splitting, lower hinge split). Spence 939. Note: Many copies were destroyed during a fire at the publisher's warehouse. Provenance: John Stead (signed to front-free endpaper); The Michael Gilkes Collection (signed and dated '1946' to front-free endpaper).
PRIESTLEY, Raymond E. Antarctic Adventure, Scott's Northern Party. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. First edition, 8vo (218 x 136mm.) Portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, numerous plates, 3 folding maps. (Light browning, some spotting, occasional minor soiling, presentation copy blind-stamp to title-page and preface.) Original blue pictorial cloth blocked in silver, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and scuffed, spine faded, lower joint splitting, lower hinge split). Spence 939. Note: Many copies were destroyed during a fire at the publisher's warehouse. Provenance: John Stead (signed to front-free endpaper); The Michael Gilkes Collection (signed and dated '1946' to front-free endpaper).
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