A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

by Matthew Henson, Robert E. Peary, Booker T. Washington

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. xxii, 200pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with photographic frontispiece mounted on front board, lettered in white. About Very Good with speckled staining to boards; toning to spine, crimped ends, rubbed white lettering. Moderate foxing to deckled edge; offset to endsheets from binder's adhesive, contents tanned. A memoir by one of the six men

• Printing: first

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