THE WHITE MAGIC

by John Keir Cross

$50 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Westhouse, 1947. Octavo, illustrations, map, cloth. First edition. Historical novel about a remarkable feat of survival in the Far North; a fictional account of the Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853-1855 in search of Sir John Franklin led by Elisha Kent Kane which set a new record for northward penetration and discovered the long-sought open Polar Sea. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and

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