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First edition, first printing, first issue with 'stoppped' on p.181; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, gold paper title labels to upper board and spine printed in black; cloth just a touched marked, labels with a little very minor scuffing, a genuinely very good copy.
£3,000 -
8vo; full complement of blank pages; printing department binding of green cloth, gilt lettered lettering-piece to spine (later addition), plain paper endpapers to front (paste-residue showing and offsetting), heavier, more finished salmon ones to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, soiling and fading to boards and spine but sound and solid; hand-written letter loosely inserted (215 x 140 mm), folded horizontally twice, creased at corners, short split to right margin of each fold, otherwise very good.
£3,750 -
First edition, 4to, edition deluxe, limited to 500 copies signed by Peary and Bob Bartlett, xii, 326 pp., 4 photogravures, 112 tipped-in photographic illustrations, large coloured map, modern full blue morocco gilt, gilt pictorial roundel to upper cover, slipcase, a fine example.
£2,500 -
Signed, limited 'General Hubbard' edition, one of 500 copies signed by Peary, 8vo, xxxii, 373, [1, blank] pages. With numerous illustrations, a folding map, and signed limitation page inserted throughout. Publisher's deluxe binding of half blue levant morocco over blue cloth boards, an excellent copy.
£2,000 -
First edition; 8v;, toned, slight residue and offsetting to upper endpapers from excised bookplate (ý), else near-fine; publisher's dark green cloth stamped in red, dust-jacket, professionally restored, damp-stain on rear flap, spine panel darkened, otherwise very good.
£3,250