[SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922)]. WILD, Frank (1873-1939). Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story of the ‘Quest’. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin. London: Cassell and Co., 1923.
Royal 8vo. Color-printed frontispiece, 100 photographic plates. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine (recased, spine slightly sunned, else fine). (Very occasional light spotting). Provenance: Owner’s gift inscription on front free endpaper; Fred L. Howson (signature on half-title).
FIRST EDITION of this firsthand account of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the Antarctic from 1929-1923, and also a personal memorial from Wild and others to Shackleton, who died aboard the Quest in January 1922 while anchored at Grytviken, South Georgia Island. Wild took command and carried out the original expedition plans, including making surveys of the Weddell Sea, and of Elephant Island, Deception Island, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands. Conrad, p. 232; Rosove 349A1-2; Spence 1259.