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WILKINS, Hubert, Sir (1888-1958). Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, [1931].
Royal 8vo. ORIGINAL GELATIN SILVER PRINT FRONTISPIECE; under tissue as issued, numerous illustrations after photographs, plans and maps. Errata slip tipped-in. Original half blue cloth, gilt-decorated spine, top edge gilt, others uncut and unopened; ORIGINAL SLIPCASE with printed paper labels (browned, some edgewear).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 43 of 275 copies of the “de luxe edition” on Strathmore Wayside Text rag SIGNED BY WILKINS AND SLOAN DANENHOWER on the limitation and with the original silver print studio portrait of Wilkins produced by Hal Phyfe for this edition only (thereafter the negative was destroyed). “A work unusual in Arctic literature, Wilkins’ volume anticipates rather than reports the 1931 expedition of the Nautilus, an under-ice experiment” (Books on Ice). A fine copy in the rare original slipcase. Arctic Bibliography 19493; Books on Ice 8.5.