Borup George (61 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The cover shows light edgewear with w little rubbing. The binding is sound.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with image for a man running from a polar bear. xvi, 317 pages [6] pages of plates : portraits, maps ; 21 cm. "With forty-six illustrations form photographs and a map". Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. An "account of the Peary Expedition, 1908-1909, by its youngest American member" - Arctic Bibliography 2022.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo, xiii, 317 pgs, frontis with tissue, photo illustrations. Publisher's decorative red cloth with title on spine and title with figure on front panel. Small stain to lower right corner of front cover, else near fine. Interior is very clean and tight; previous owner's inked name and city on front free endpaper. Good story of the Peary Expedition to Greenland. With material on hunting and shooting.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: VG+, NO dj. 1st. 12mo. 317pp. Spine a little cocked. Map present at end. Lettering and decorations. nice and bright.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Very good copy. 1st. 8vo, 317 pp., Color frontispiece and 8 b/w illustrations from photographs., Bound in blue cloth; gilt-decorated front cover with color illustration by George H. Mabie mounted in the central panel (it has a background of a ship trapped in the ice, a dog sled with several dogs and a foreground of two gesturing explorers). Front hinge partially cracked; contents clean & tight. Illus. with photos (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. 3rd Edition. New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (c1911). 3rd Edition. Cloth(Hrdcvr). 12mo., 317 pp., Cover rubbed, corners frayed, spine faded, hinges weak, , yellowing . Photographs, Map (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 1911 print date stated, no further dates used hardcover copy, in blue boards, lacking a dust jacket. front board features illustration surrounded with gilt details. front hinge cracked; remains intact. light shelfwear, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws save for the lack of the original jacket.…

Good plus or better, light general wear, soiled. Cloth Pages browned. prev owner's bookplate on front fly.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardbound. First edition, published March 1911. 317 pages, illustrated with 46 photos plus a foldout map at the rear. Generally about very good, a rather unworn copy, but with "42" written in ink on the spine, plus one very small bump mark below that number. Owner's ink stamp inside front board. See my scans. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. September 1911 EARLY PRINTING (reprint) of First USA Edition. Original blue cloth, brown and white illustration front cover, gilt and black lettering front cover & spine. Bright, clean covers, rubbing to spine corners and cover corners (= loss of color), old owner bookplate on front pastedown otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, cracking to EP hinges but hinges very strong and nowhere close to breaking, solid binding, no foxing. The book measures 209mm tall x 135mm, and has 317 pages, 42 b/w photos, folding map. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.…

Very good condition. Name erased from front fly leaf. Two small holes in back hinge. Two light but fairly large stains on back cover. Spine is slightly dull. Front cover color paste down. 317 pages plus nine illustrations.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Preface by Melville. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt and illustrated yellow, gray and black. Illustrated with black and white photographs, and large fold-out map. Book is fine except for detached frontispiece and half-title page, partial hairline split to rear endpaper, and minor rubbing to cloth at corners. 5 1/4 x 8 inches. 317 pages plus preface.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. souvenir edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. xvi, 317 pgs. Ivory cloth spine with blue paper-covered boards, ivory printed label on cover, gilt lettering on spine. A souvenir edition (2nd) printed for the 1911 Annual Bookseller's Assoc Dinner. Numerous B&W photo illus and fold-out map. Condition is GOOD+ ; edges and corners worn, upper spine frayed with small tears at sides. Covers somewhat stained and soiled. Binding solid, fold-out map very good, some very mild darkening to text. Printed bookplate on front pastedown. Nautical. RGR.…

8vo. xvi, 317, [1] pp. Frntsp. photo, 45 photo illusts., 1 large folding map. Illust. blue cloth, with illust. in gray & white of boy being chased by polar bear, gilt & black lettering on front cover & spine, snowshoe in white on spine (minor soiling), still VG- copy, from library of Paul Gurley Merrow (1884-1934), w/ engraved bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, early printing, of this memoir by the youngest member of the support party during Peary's 1908-1909 North Pole expedition, including an account of the sledge journey with MacMillan along the northern coast of Greenland.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in stiff card with red cloth ove. Still in VG condition with some corner bumping but the cloth is still in VG clean condition. Inside the fron cover are some light pencil notes but no inscription or ownership markings. The text pages are clean. No torn, loose or missing pages but a few pages have creased corners. There are two coloured folded maps tipped in.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has one bumped corner modest wear to corners, head and heel of spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pocket Borup edition on red cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Includes map of Greenland and Baffin Bay. Ink notation front end paper. The author writes about: The Voyage to Greenland; Unloading the Roosevelt; Breaking in the Tenderfeet; Rushing the Pole; M acMil lan's Experiences on the Polar Dash; Commander Peary's System Compared with Others; Homeward Bound; Arrival in Labrador; etc.…