SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann. 1919.
8vo. Original blue-black cloth, image of the Endurance blocked in silver to upper cover, lettered in silver to spine; pp. xxi, 376; numerous illustrations from photographs, one folding map; only very light bumping and rubbing to binding; internally remarkably clean and fresh, a very attractive copy with contemporary ownership inscription in ink to front fly-leaf.
Second printing of the first edition, published one month after, and in the same format as the first printing, using far superior paper than for the notorious first printing. Currently Shackleton's South is the most sought-after of polar books. It tells the story of the loss of the expedition's ship, the Endurance, and of the subsequent mythic boat journey in the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. - The printers had used inferior paper stock for the first impression, which results in mostly browned and brittle copies.
Rosove 308.A3.
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