[SHIRASE, Nobu (1861–1946)]. A group of 4 works, including:...

SHIRASE, Kyoko. Yukihara e Yuku: Watashi no Shirase Nobu. Akita: Nankyoku Tanken Taicho Shirase Nobu Tuisyoukai, 1986. 8vo. Illustrated. Original cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, of this biography written by Shirase’s great–nephew. Ross 2.10.1 (“Scarce”). –– SHIRASE. Nobu Shirase: Watashi no Nankyoku Tankenki [English translation: Nobu Shirase: Account of My Expedition to the South Pole]. Tokyo: Hihon Tosho Senta, 1998. 8vo. Illustrated. Original cloth; original dust jacket. Third edition published 46 years after the second edition in 1942. Ross 1.4.3. –– WAHEI, Tatematsu. Nankyoku ni itta Otoko Shosetsu Shirase Nankyoku Tankentai [English translation: Shirase and the Men that went to the Antarctic in Search of the Pole]. Tokyo: Shoseki Co., 2008. 8vo. Original cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. Ross 2.14.1. ––DAGNELL, Lara and Hilary SHIBATA, translators. The Japanese South Polar Expedition 1910–12: A Record of Antarctica. Compiled and edited by the Shirase Antarctic Expedition Supporters’ Association. [Norwich and Huntington:] Bluntisham Books and Erskine Press, 2011. 8vo. Illustrated. Original gilt–stamped red cloth. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, originally published in Japanese as Nankyokuki in 1913. –– Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition fine.