Lot 234
  • 234

Shackleton, Ernest

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • South. The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (247 x 153mm.), half-title, errata slip, coloured frontispiece, 87 plates on 45 leaves (one double-page), folding map, original pictorial black cloth, top edge tinted, small tear to map, cracking at places, very minor wear to extremities

Provenance

D.F. Birch, inscription on front free endpaper

Literature

Rosove 308.A1; Spence 1107; Taurus Collection 105

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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Catalogue Note

The illustration on the cover is notoriously prone to rubbing, but here it is in a good state of preservation.