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[ANTARCTIC]. ROSS, Chet. Lieutenant Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1912: A Bibliography. Santa Monica: Adélie Books, 2010. 8vo. Numerous color–printed illustrations from photographs. Original publisher’s blue leather–backed boards, illustrated endpapers; original acetate jacket; original cardboard mailer. Laid in with prospectus and a signed color photo of a sunrise on Tokyo Bay taken by the author on the morning of the 100-year anniversary of Shirase’s departure from Japan enroute to Antarctica. LIMITED EDITION, number 154 of 300 copies signed by the author. This is the first bibliography of works by and about Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, containing over 50 publication entries from various countries and is the first book written in English about Shirase in the 100 years since the expedition departed from Tokyo Bay.