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PEARY, Robert E. (1856-1920). The North Pole. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
Royal 8vo. Numerous illustrations from photographs, large color folding map at end. Original gilt-lettered teal green cloth with a gilt central medallion of Peary on upper cover, pictorial stamped on spine and rear cover in white, uncut. Provenance: Donald A. Harvey (embossed library stamp on ffep).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION published the same year as the first American edition. A FINE COPY of Peary’s cornerstone work of his account of his achievement of the pole introduced with high praise by Theodore Roosevelt. Arctic Bib. 13230.