Aurora Australis by Shackleton E H (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Ed Thus. First New Zealand ed. thus. Very good/Very good condition, moderate over all wear to book and dustjacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN 0-908697-24-4. Hardback volume. Reprint edition. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. A tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition.

4to, hardback, xxiii + unpaginated journal. Good condition (light wear; pages yellowed), in like dustwrapper (protective cover, light edge wear, bumped, upper corner of inside front flap lightly creased). ISBN: 1853100609. Pictures available on request.

Reproduction of one of the original hand bound copies. XXIV, then 184 PP (without pagination) with 11 illustrations on full page (10 b/w and 1 colour) and 11 b/w illustrations in the introduction. Eps: Reproduction of the original which was printed and bound in Antarctica. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 18.8. Facsimile of the first book published in the Antarctic during Shackleton's second expedition.

xxiv+c.160pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W illustrations. A very good copy. Based on one of the few bound copies of the original `Aurora Australis' from the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909.

facsimile).Octavo,From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09.

Hardcover. Large 8vo. unpaginated, approx. 186 pp. Reprint of the 1909 work, The British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 produced in Antarctica. With black and white illustrations. Facsimile edition of the first book published in the Antarctic, from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Near Fine with uniformly age-toned pages in a Near Fine dust jacket.

ppxxiv, (210), 10 full-page plates; 4to, cloth. Very good in dustwrapper. Reprint of the first book published in the Antarctic by Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition. Produced under appalling conditions in order to occupy the men during the winter months, and by men with virtually no printing experience, only 60 copies or so of the first edition are known to exist.

Boards. Facsimile Edition. Royal 8vo, pp. xxiv, (approx. 170) unpaginated,b/w ills., illustrated endpapers, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition in near-fine d.j. Facsimile edition of the first book published in the Antarctic, from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

Sydney: Bay Books, (1988). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xxivpp, then unpaginated). With numerous illusts. of which 2 col., dec. initials and tailpieces, and illust. endpapers. NOTE: Reprint of the 'Julienne' edition, in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, which was produced and first published by the British Antarctic Expedition during the winter of 1908.

Sydney: Bay Books 1988. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. xxivpp then unpaginated. With numerous illusts. of which 2 col. dec. initials and tailpieces and illust. endpapers. NOTE: Reprint of the 'Julienne' edition in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington New Zealand which was produced and first published by the British Antarctic Expedition during the winter of 1908.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. No numbered pages.

4to; unpaginated; illustrations throughout; bound in calf-backed timber boards to match the original presentation and housed in matching timber box tied with green cords. With publisher's introductory booklet enclosed. A fine copy. Faithful facsimile of the 'Julienne Soup' copy in the Turnbull Library in Wellington. It is limited to 375 copies for sale. Aurora Australis was the first book produced in Antarctica. It was Shackleton's hope to diivert and occupy his meen during the dark winter period of forced inactvity. They wrote, printed and bound the work (using the packing cases which had contained their supplies) in their winter quarters.

Boards. George Marston (Illus.) (illustrator). Limited Ed. Limited edition, No. 16 of 500 hand-numbered copies, quarto, pp.194, complete with the 11 illustrations by George Marston, quarter bound in calf with beechwood timber Venesta boards and stencilled inside the boards. Together with 'A Commentary', 16 pages printed letterpress on Munken paper in green wraps. Presented in a linen-covered dropover box, titled to spine and leather label blind-blocked to front, 'Printed at the Sign of the Penguins' device. Near fine condition. A faithful facsimile in a limited edition of only 500 hand numbered copies to mark the Centenary of Shackleton's death in 2021. 'Aurora Australis" was the first book published in the winter quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition during 1908-09 and reproduced here from Frank Wild's own copy (Copy No.12) with a later presentation inscription to Rudyard Kipling from Shackleton dated 1914. A memento of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.