SHIELDS, Mary

Sled Dog Trails

Fairbanks, Alaska, Pyrola Publishing, 1984. 1st edition. Paperback. pp. 127. Larger format pb - sl. edge-worn & creased; else vg. INSCRIBED by author: 'To Shirley, Mary Shields', ink on ffep. Ink name and address on rear endpaper. Ill.: maps, b&w illustrations.

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Book number: 9900028892

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Dog sledding;Iditarod;Alaska;The North;;;;; maps, b&w illustrations

SMUCKER, Samuel M.

Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century; Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure and Others. Including the First Grinnell Expedition, Under Lieutenant de Haven, and the Final Effort of Dr. E. Kane in Search of Sir John Franklin

New York, Miller, Orton & Co, 1857. Hardcover. pp. xiii, [25] - 517 + ads. 8vo. Blind-decorated brown cloth binding with near-total loss of gilt spine lettering. Engravings, including tissue-guarded portrait and frontispiece. Loss to spine ends and corners, ink names and blind-stamp to front endpapers, foxing to first pages. Binding sound, contents unmarked. Smucker's Accounts of Some of the Most Fascinating Arctic Expeditions. Ill.: illustrated.

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Book number: 090979

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Polar; Arctic; Exploration illustrated

Starkell, Don

Paddle to the Arctic; the Incredible Story of a Kayak Quest Across the Roof of the World

Toronto, Mcclelland & Stewart, 1995. Hardcover. pp. 312. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good+. Dustjacket showing general shelfwear and slight discloration; very good. First Edition signed by Author. .

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Book number: 078667

Catalogue: Polar

Taylor, Robert R.

The Edge of the Arctic; Churchill and the Hudson Bay Region

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Windemere House Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Oblong 8vo. Colour photographs. Author's signature to ffep. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to front pastedown; very good+. .

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Book number: 080388

Catalogue: Polar

Hauf, Tim and Conger Beasley Jr.

Little Trees, Big Sky; Portrait of Northern Wilderness

[NL], Tim Hauf Photography, 2000. Paperback. pp. 143. 4to. Light shelfwear and age toning, Tim Hauf's signature to title page; very good+. SIGNED by Hauf. .

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Book number: 091324

Catalogue: Polar

Tippett, Maria; Charles Gimpel, photos

Between Two Cultures; a Photographer Among the Inuit

Toronto, Viking Penguin, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 178. Oblong 4to. Light edgewear, gift inscription, internally clean and unmarked; very good, in good dustjacket showing a few closed tears and creases to top edge of front panel. .

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Book number: 084950

Catalogue: Polar

TORALES, Julio Ayala

Mapas Isogonicos Polares

Buenos Aires, 1946. 1st printing. Wraps. pp. 20. 4to. A few spots to front cover. Light overall shelf wear; else g/vg. A treatise on the polar isogenic lines. Published by the Universidad Nacional de Tuchman. The text is in Spanish, with folding map. .

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Book number: 9900040393

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Magnetic pole;;;;;;;;

[Turner, Evan H.]

Eskimo Graphic Art

[Canadian Eskimo Arts Committee], 1963. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. 4to. Art catalogue. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 087838

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Indigenous Art; Inuit Art

Victor, Paul-Emile; Scott Sullivan (Trans.)

Man and the Conquest of the Poles; the Story of Polar Exploration, from the Exploits of the Ancient Greeks to the Voyages of Today's Nuclear Submarines, by the Famous French Explorer Who Has Spent More Than Fourteen Years in the Arctic and Antarctic

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. pp. 320. 8vo. Bound in full blue cloth with silver lettering to spine and front board. Map endpapers. Black and white plates. Light general shelfwear, several pages dog-eared, ink gift inscription, significant pencil and ink notation/underlining throughout; good in good dustjacket with some creasing and small chips and tears at edges. .

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Book number: 053759

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Exploration; Travel; History; Arctic; Antarctic;

Wachowich, Nancy; Apphia Agalakti Awa; Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak; Sandra Pikujak Katsak

Saqiyuq; Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Paperback. pp. viii, 301. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, scant pencil underlining; very good. .

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Book number: 087235

Catalogue: Polar

Payne, Carol, Beth Greenhorn. Deborah Kigjugalik Webster and Christina Williamson (ed.)

Atiqput; Inuit Oral History and Project Naming

Montreal, McGill-Queen's, 2022. Hardcover. pp. 243, 4to. Red binding. Duotone pgotographic illustrations. Lightshelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 091280

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Whitney, Harry

Hunting with the Eskimos; the Unique Record of a Sportsman's Year Among the Northernmost Tribe - the Big Game Hunting, the Native Life, and the Battle for Existence Through the Long Arctic Night

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xiv, 453. Royal 8vo. Burgundy cloth with colour decorations and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with photos by the author. Edgewear, pull to tail of spine, slight spine slant, reinforced hinges, blind-stamp to front free endpaper, contents unmarked, binding sound. Ill.: b&w photos and illustrations.

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Book number: 090982

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Eskimo; Inuit; North ;Canadiana; Arctic; Dene;;; b&w photos and illustrations

Whitney, Caspar (Ed.); [Robert E. Peary; Joshua Slocum]

Outing January 1903 Vol XLI, No. 4 / with 'Sledging over the Polar Pack' and 'the Voyage of the Aquidneck... '

New York, The Outing Publishing Company, 1903. Paperback. 8vo. Black and white photos, illustrations. Large chips to spine, edges tattered, notation to cover; fair. Peary article from p. 395-405, with photos; Slocum article comprises p.487-492, with an illustration. .

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Book number: 9900045179

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Northern; Polar; North Pole; Arctic; Exploration;

Wiebe, Rudy Henry

Playing Dead; a Contemplation Concerning the Arctic

Edmonton, AB, NeWest Press, 1989. Paperback. pp. 123. 8vo. Light shelfwear, dampstain to front panel, thumbed corners; else good. .

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Book number: 070163

Catalogue: Polar

Woodman, David C.

Unravelling the Franklin Mystery; Inuit Testimony

Montreal and Kingston, Mcgill-queen's University Press, 1991. Hardcover. pp. 390. 8vo. Bound in gray cloth with silver lettering to spine. Ink inscription to front pastwdown. Dustjacket with lightest shelfwear; otherwise near fine. .

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Book number: 081207

Catalogue: Polar