Author: SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST
Title: South. The Story of Shackleton's 1914 - 1917 Expedition. [With an original photograph of Shackleton from 1924]
Description: London, Heinemann. 1923, Reprint. Original Pictorial Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, 1923 reprint of the new abridged edition. xiii, [3], 205 pages, frontispiece, 31 b/w plates. Front of the dust wrapper pasted on the front endpaper. Old name and date on front endpaper "W.E.C. Tylee. Oct 29th 1924". This copy has an original print of a previously unknown photograph of Sir Ernest Shackleton on the half-title page. When compared with other known photographs it is clear that this photo shows Shackleton as he embarks on the Shackelton-Rault expedition to the Antarctic, 24 September 1921. The photo measures 11.2cm x 8.2cm. Very Good.

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