Fleming, Fergus

Ninety Degrees North; the Quest for the North Pole

New York, Grove Press, 2003. Paperback. pp. xxi, 470. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light general shelfwear, creasing to spine, scuffing to front cover; very good-. .

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Book number: 072480

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Exploration; Expedition; Endurance

Gad, Finn; Ernst Dupont (trans.)

History of Greenland (Two Volume Set); I: Earliest Times to 1700; II: 1700-1782

Montreal, Mcgill-Queen's University Press, 1973. Hardcover. pp. 350, 446. 8vo. Light tan binding with gilt lettering to spines. Contains black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear, corners slightly bumped, slanting to spines, light marginalia in pencil. Dustjackets age toned, lightly soiled and edgeworn; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 083112

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Northern history; Inuit; Eskimo; Pre-contact; colonization

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913. Two Volumes

New York City, George H. Doran Company, 1922. 1st edition. Hardcover. Pagination: lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 301-585, [blank leaf]. 8vo. Two volume set in publisher's original binding. Both volumes bound in the same manner as the Constable first printing: blue-grey papered boards with linen spines. The blue-grey endpapers do not appear original, but consistent with the original endpapers. The paper spine labels are chipped, more so to volume I, but are quite legible. Spines darkened. Light discoloration to edges of boards, with some edge-rubbing. Frontispiece tissue guard present in both volumes. Bottom edge of text block of volume II scored, but with no significant affect to contents. Binding tight, contents bright and unmarked. Similar collation to the Constable printing, but without the ten panoramas. All plates and maps are present and placed as stipulated. Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clarke, Edinburgh. 'Being an account of Scott's last Antarctic expedition 1910-1913, especially of the winter, polar, and search journeys; with the diaries of those who took part, panoramic and other illustrations and sketch maps by the late Dr. Edward A. Wilson and others.' Rosove 71.C1, not in Spence. Ill.: maps, colour and b&w plates.

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Book number: 9900043979

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Antarctica; Robert Falcon Scott; South Pole; Amundsen; Sledging maps, colour and b&w plates

Giaever, John; Gordon de Q. Robin; E. F. Roots; Valter Schytt; Brian Walford; J. M. Wordie (Foreword); E. M. Huggard (Trans.)

The White Desert: The Official Account of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1951

London, Chatto & Windus, 1954. Ed. not stated. Hardcover. pp. 304. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographic plates. Corners bumped, moderate edgewear, else very good in chipped, slightly worn dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar). .

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Book number: 052317

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Antarctic; South; Polar Exploration;

Gombay, Nicole

Making a Living; Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community

Saskatoon, Purich Publishing, 2010. Paperback. pp. 230. 8vo. Black and white photographs and maps. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 078415

Catalogue: Polar

Hall, Charles Francis

Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1860, 1861, and 1862

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1866. Hardcover. pp. xxviii, 595, ads. Royal 8vo. Bound in pebbled green cloth, with publisher's device blind-stamped to front board and gilt lettering to spine. All plates and maps present, including the folding map, at the rear of the book. Edgewear, slightly shaken, age-toned; good. Originally published in two volumes in London in 1864 as 'Life With The Esquimaux', this is a later printing of the American edition. .

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Book number: 076428

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Eskimo; Inuit; Aboriginal people; Canada; Northwest passage; Sir John Franklin;

Harper, Kenn

Thou Shalt Do No Murder; Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

Iqaluit, Nunavut Arctic College Media, 2017. Hardcover. pp. 416. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black and white photographs and maps. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 078411

Catalogue: Polar

Hearne, Samuel

A Journey from Prince of Wale's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean

London, A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. v-xliv, 458. 4to. Bound in early 3/4 leather over black pebbled buckram. The binding shows wear and scuffing, front joint splitting, contents intermittently foxed or soiled (ex. tide mark to pp. 56 to 94; Coppermine River map shows edge-staining). Overall, in strong condition and decent shape but, due to the absence of at least one plate and possibly two maps, plus the missing four pages, we offer it with all faults, and priced accordingly. First printed three years after Hearne's death in 1792, this account is taken from his manuscript and edited by John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury. It contains a day-to-day record, with notes on natural history, of four expeditions (1769, 1770, 1771) northwest by land from Hudson's Bay. On the last trip, undertaken in 1771-1772, Hearne reached the Arctic Ocean at the mouth of the Coppermine River, becoming the first white man to travel overland from the Bay to the Arctic Ocean, and the first of his race to 'gaze upon the dreary expanse of the Arctic or Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the Continent of America' (Sabin 31181). See also Streeter 3652, TPL 445, Waterston 19.The copies referenced in these bibliographies differ in their collation: the copy seen by Sabin has four maps and eight plates; TPL four plates and three maps; and Streeter four plates and five maps. Our copy has but three plates (all folding) and three folding maps (Coppermine River, Moos River, Slude River). It also lacks the first four pages (pp. i to iv) which includes the title page. Ill.: three maps, three plates.

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Book number: 9900012157

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: Arctic; Hudson's Bay Co; Exploration; Canadian history; three maps, three plates

Stuart Houston, C.

Arctic Ordeal; the Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822

Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Paperback. pp. 349. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink signature to inside front cover; very good+. Appendices by John W. Thomson and Walter O. Kupsch. Foreward by W. Gillies Ross. Ill.: H. Albert Hochbaum.

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Book number: 079069

Catalogue: Polar

Keywords: H. Albert Hochbaum

Houston, James (Saomik, the Left-Handed One)

Confessions of an Igloo Dweller; the Story of the Man Who Brought Inuit Art to the Outside World

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1996. Paperback. pp. xiii, 320. 8vo. Black and white illustrations, map. Very good. .

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Book number: 055920

Catalogue: Polar

Houston, James

Spirit Wrestler

Toronto, Mcclelland And Stewart, 1980. Hardcover. pp. 306. Royal 8vo. Half cloth blue binding with silver lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Shelfworn, sunned edges, speckling to top edge, age toned endpapers, ink author inscription and signature to ffep; very good in very good, edgeworn, rubbed dustjacket. .

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Book number: 068759

Catalogue: Polar

Houston, C. Stuart (ed.)

To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821; the Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood Midshipman with Franklin

Montreal and London, The Arctic Institute of North America, 1975. Hardcover. pp. 217. 4to. Bound in gray cloth. Beautiful illustrations. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to half title page. Some edgewear to dustjacket; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 091387

Catalogue: Polar

Houston, James

The White Dawn; an Eskimo Saga

New York, Harcourt Brace, 1971. Hardcover. pp. viii, 275. 8vo. Publisher's topstain, black & white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good in good dustjacket showing edgewear and creasing to spine. .

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Book number: 066616

Catalogue: Polar

Hughes, Katherine

In the Promised Land of Alberta's North; the Northern Journal of Katherine Hughes

Calgary, AB, Alberta Records Publication Board, 2006. Paperback. 8vo. Black and white photographic reproductions. Very good. Edited and introduced by Ken Kaiser and Merrily Aubrey. .

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Book number: 047862

Catalogue: Polar

Hutton, Dr. S. K.

Among the Eskimos of Labrador

Toronto, Musson Book Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering to spine and front board, and gilt decoration to front board. Top edge gilt. B&w photos all present as called-for, 2 maps (one of which is folding). Spine sunned, small portion of rear jacket panel stuck to rear board, some scuffing to spine ends, scattered light foxing; still, very good, with clean, unmarked contents and sound binding. .

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Book number: 078475

Catalogue: Polar