Dark Companion: Matthew Henson, Conqueror of the Arctic Ice, Co-Discoverer of the Pole

by Bradley Robinson, Vilhjamur Stefansson, Donald B. MacMillan, Peter

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Robert H. McBride & Company, 1947. First edition. Signed by explorer Matthew Henson, subject of this book, Matt Henson on the half title. Laid in is a program for the unveiling of a bust of Henson sponsored by the NAACP in New York City, Feb. 9, 1953, where he was a speaker; presumably this is where the book was signed. xviii, 2 , 266 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red lettering,

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