Author: Smolka, H. P.
Title: Fourty thousand against the Arctic. Russia's Polar Empire. [First edition, signed by the author].
Description: London, Hutchinson, 1937. 8vo. 288 pp.; two folded maps, 53 photographic plates. Two printed errata sheets tipped in. Original blue cloth with silver title on the spine. In original pictorial dust jacket. = First edition. Dedicated by the author on the half-title, signed and dated 15.4.'37. The "Polar Army" of 40.000 russian pioneers, men and women, opened the northern part and coast of eastern Siberia. The dust jacket contains a slightly different title: 40,000 against the Arctic. Russia's Polar empire, and adds: "An amazing human story of people in modern towns with factories, aeroplanes & orchards next door to Polar bears & wil reindeer". Dust jacket edges slightly worn, otherwise very good. An originally inscribed copy, such as this one, is rare.

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