Bernacchi Commander (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Third Printing. Teal cloth third Keystone Library impression is toned along edges and has light wear. Foxing to edges. Unclipped jacket has light foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ex-library. Some library stamps, labels and markings. Library label taped to tail of dust-jacket spine. Label on front endpaper "Glen Historic Collection / Southland". Rubber stamp on copyright page, Hewitson Library. Contemporary inscription on front endpaper "[Lina?] Wildes / from J. G. / Xmas 1935. Moderate patchy foxing to text leaves. 10mm fading at tail of cloth spine. Foxing to dust-jacket. 20mm tear and 10mm chips at ends of dust-jacket spine. Rear panel of dust-jacket with small chips and abrasions from insect damage, with loss of a few letters from the advertisements. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; June 1935 second "Keystone Library" impression, of a title that was first published in May 1933. The first Keystone Library printing was March 1935. 240 pages + frontispiece + 7 plates. 2 double page maps within the pagination, "Map of Antarctica" on pages 86-87, and "The Polar Routes" on pages 148-149. Purple cloth boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 206 x 138mm. Account of Antarctic explorer Captain L. E. G. Oates. "More than twenty years have passed since that tragic journey in 1912 when Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, of the Inniskilling Draoons, made the supreme sacrifice on his return journey from the South Pole, 'by willingly walking to his death in a blizzard to try and save his companions beset by hardship.'" - page 15. [Reference: Rosove 36.B2 - "The first biography of Capt. Lawrence Edward Grace 'Titus' Oates (1880-1912). Most of the book is a retelling of Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-13), with the focus on Oates."].