Nearest the pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906

by Robert E. Peary

$850 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, 2 , 411, 1 ; color frontispiece, 95 photographic plates by Peary, and 2 folding maps; ex-James J. Hill Library, with accession numbers on spine and a perforated stamp in bottom margin of the title page; all else very good in original decorative green cloth, t.e.g. This copy inscribed on the title page: To James J. Hill with best regards of the author, R. E. Peary, U.S.N. Only the signature

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