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WILKINS, Hubert, Sir (1888-1958). Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, [1931]. 8vo. Illustrated. 347, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's full yellow cloth, front boards and spines stamped in black, map endleaves (spine toned, some wear, soiling to boards, some toning to endleaves, sticker residue on upper portion of fp., several pages unopened - original jacket front flap laid-in (the rest of the jacket is missing)). FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY WILKINS ON THE HALF-TITLE. “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). Arctic Bibliography 19493. Books on Ice 8.5.