Shackleton, Ernest

3 volumes (including The Antarctic Book), 4to (10 5/8 x 8 3/4 in.; 270 x 212 mm). Frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous plates and illustrations, including 3 folding maps and a folding panorama in pocket at the end of volume 2; occasional mostly marginal spotting, shadow of frontispiece on title. Publisher's vellum with gilt penguin motif on covers, The Antarctic Book in publisher's vellum-backed boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, brown silk placeholders; slight warping to covers of volume 1.

Spence 1098; Taurus Collection 57

occasional mostly marginal spotting, shadow of frontispiece on title. Publisher's vellum with gilt penguin motif on covers, The Antarctic Book in publisher's vellum-backed boards, top edges gilt, others uncut; slight warping to covers of volume 1.
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First edition, no. 139 of 300 copies signed by all the members of the shore party. "The most luxurious publication ever to have appeared during the 'heroic age' of Antarctic Exploration" (Taurus).

"The shore party consisted of fifteen men, including Shackleton, Professor T.W. Edgeworth David, and Douglas Mawson had embarked at Sydney. Their sledge journey to the south magnetic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole" (ONDB).