The Desolate Antarctic

by Admiral Edward Lord Mountevans

$495 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. Antarctic exploration INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo 22 x 15cm , pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title: To W.G. Whincop M.B.E.. | To whom London owes so much. | With Best Wishes | from His friend | Mountevans | admiral |

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