A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. With a forward

by Robert Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington by Mathew A. Henson

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First Edition. Portrait frontispiece, 6 photographic plates on 3 leaves. xx, 2 , 200pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover with a portrait onlay, lettered in white, rubbed, minor abrasion to the portrait. Repaired void at the top right corner of the title. Item #378015 A landmark of both Arctic exploration and African-American history, with a foreword by Peary and an introduction by Booker T.

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