Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana

[ARCTIC]. A group of 5 signed works, including: COOK, Frederick A. My Attainment of the Pole. New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. 8vo. Illustrated. Original pictorial green cloth. Third edition, INSCRIBED BY COOK TO A FRIEND. Laid in with a rare postcard mailer with removable stub to be mailed to a local congressman to endorse Cook as being the first to reach the North Pole and not Peary. –– GRENFELL, Wilfred Thomason. Adrift on an Ice–Pan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1925]. Small 8vo. Illustrated. Original grey cloth. Later printing, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING. –– RAWSON, Kennett Longley. A Boy’s–Eye View of the Arctic. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. 8vo. Illustrated. Original blue cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (toned with some chipped edges). FIRST EDITION, WITH A SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY THE AUTHOR mounted to the front free endpaper. Rawson was cabin boy of the “Bowdoin” under Donald MacMillan during his 1925 Expedition to the Arctic. –– BRAINARD, David L. Six Came Back: The Arctic Adventure of… Edited by Bessie Rowland James. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs–Merrill Company, [1940]. 8vo. Illustrated. Original gilt–lettered blue cloth (edges rubbed, joints tender). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE EXPLORER. Brainard was one of six lone survivors of the 25–member Greely Expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2071. –– HERBERT, W.W. In Amundsen’s Tracks on the Axel Heiberg Glacier. London: Royal Geographic Society, December 1963. Volume 126, Part 4. 8vo. Large folding map. Original printed wrappers. INSCRIBED BY HERBERT on the upper cover and again signed on the folding map. Herbert was the leader of the British Trans–Arctic Expedition that made a 3800–mile surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean.