Captain Scott, Signed (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "First Edition" stated with no other printing indication - 1st, Inscribed to a former owner and Signed by G. B. Knowles, also Signed by Capt.Scott Moore on title page - 51/4" wide x 81/4" tall soft cover shows edge wear with heavy scuffing to spine and folds to front/rear wrappers, illustrated with black & white photographs, no copyright date stated - early 1990's? Inscribed by Author(s).

Williams, Isobel. Captain Scott's invaluable assistant: Edgar Evans. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2012, 191pp., PAPERBACK, cover price 12.99 pounds, fresh attractive copy, very good. SIGNED simply in blue ink on title page: Isobel Williams. Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain's Scott's 'giant worker' and his 'invaluable assistant'. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s - the 'Discovery' expedition of 1901 and the 'Terra Nova' expedition in 1910 - distinguishing himself. ISBN 9780752458458.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes card of Mount Hooker signed by Don Aldridge. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tear to jacket. Some toning. Pages unmarked. xxii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. *Autographed by author.* "This narrative explores the reasons for the building of Scott's ship 'Discovery' in Dundee, examining links between whaling, polar ships, marine engineering, and polar ice rescues. It recounts the exploits of Dundee's ice master, Captain Harry McKay, whose experience saved Scott in 1904. Signed.

Condition: Good. 2003. First Edition. 508 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. White pictorial dust jacket over white cloth. Title page has been signed by the Author and dedicated.Colour photographic plates. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning to edges Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear, with bumping to corners. Unclipped jacket is clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal rub wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Blue cloth first edition is fine in fine jacket. Signed by Tarver to title page. ; 1881-1929; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 200 pages; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 2004 Paperback Edition; SIGNED 508 pages, illustrated, 40 b/w and colour photographs, 9 maps. Antarctic Heritage Trust Bookplate pasted onto front cover SIGNED by Ranulph Fiennes. Previous owners neat inscription above bookplate. Appears unread. Written with the energy and style that have made Fiennes' other books so popular, 'Captain Scott' is the enthralling story of an extraordinary man. Biography written with the co-operation of the Scott Estate, and which seeks to re-establish Scott's reputation after its decline following Roland Huntford's book on Scott and Amundsen. An experienced polar traveller himself, Fiennes concludes that Scott's decisions were generally either logical, or inevitable in the circumstances, and that the catastrophe was down to extreme bad luck with the weather. Amundsen is depicted as fortunate (and duplicitous), Armitage and Cherry-Garrard as unreliable witnesses in their later years, and Oates' criticisms as the sort of grumbles many expedition members will make about their leader under the intense strain of expeditions. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biography & Autobiography. Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9780340826997. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3865.

Through the eyes of the sailors who were its backbone, the heroism of derring-do seems to become all the more human, humdrum and every-day; To me, this makes the accomplishments all the more real and remarkable. I commend this book to collectors, enthusiasts, historians and to those looking for a casual read on Captain Scott, in equal measure; David M. Wilson Polar Historian and Gt. Nephew, Edward Wilson of the Antarctic - As a former Royal Navy Officer, who came from the ranks, I was hugely interested in this book and potential insights that it offered from a very different perspective than other books I have read about Scott. I am delighted to say that I was not disappointed and actually, the writings of Francis Davies offered not only an insight into Scott and the Terra Nova Expedition, but also the norms and the way that both the navy and society operated. In itself, this combination allows for a detailed consideration of the basis by which the expedition was undertaken and Scott's leadership was executed. Paul Hart As a fellow naval Officer, who has led mixed groups of military and civilians in highly challenging environments and with a background of 30 years of expedition across the globe, I understand the complexities of managing mixed groups where the leadership of the military might necessarily be different to that needed to motivate and manage the civilians. I also understand how the reverse perspective of those being led, can lead to issues when the military contingent expect the civilian contingent to be led according to the same rules of military discipline as they are subject to. In my experience, when these forces combine, discontent and unruliness can commonly be the case unless the leader is able to establish a very high level of trust and respect. In doing so, the leader must walk the narrow margin between enforcing group compliance and being able to engage with every person at an individual level. There are many instances in the book where this is presented as a reality of Scott's leadership, but the book is also very honest about some of his traits that were less desirable and this is essential to understand the man, as well as the expedition itself. The book is well written, with some quite comical observations on the operation of the Royal Navy and on Societal values at the time. It is also littered with a range of interesting photographs that enhance and support visual understanding of the writer's words. As an avid reader of all things Antarctic and a practicing Historian who speaks regularly on Scott and Shackleton, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in such matters. Review by; Lieutenant Commander Paul Hart FRGS MPhil (Cantab) Royal Navy. Leader of the first party to make a man-haul crossing of the Antarctic Peninsula to conduct science and exploration, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaching the South Pole : Author Biography : Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN. My first exploration ship was the "Terra Nova", of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910. It is of my experiences generally in this, Scott 's Last Expedition that I am writing. My interview with Captain Scott, he explained what would be expected of me. My principal job, he said, would be the erection of Winter Quarters for the Southern party, which was to make an attempt to reach the South Pole. He also told me that I would be paid GBP40 a year, adding that if I made a success of the job, he wouldn't say what he would do for me, but if on the other hand, I failed to come up to scratch, I would be for the high jump.

Paperback. Condition: Very good condition. Signed by the author on the title page. Tall 8vo, 191pp, ads [1] pp. Color pictorial covers, title in white on black spine. Very clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and dated by Ranulph Fiennes to the title page. A near fine copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a near fine, unclipped dustjacket (lightly pushed to head & foot of spine, faint foxing to page block) All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery. Signed by Author(s).

First edition 2003. Signed by Author in black ink on title page. 508pp. B&W and colour photographs throughout. Book condition: Very Good, minor sunning to page edges - please see photographs. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good, slight age-related shelf wear - please see photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1st edition, 6th impression. Octavo. Original cloth. Dustwrapper. A detailed biography. Inscribed: 'For Elizabeth, Best wishes, Ranulph Fiennes, 2004'. Slightly creased to the cloth else a near fine, tight, clean copy in very good, slightly creased dustwrapper which is a little faded to the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. White boards and spine, the latter lettered in silver. Internally signed by author on title page. Previous owner's sticker on front free end paper 6 cm x 3 cm. Signed by Author(s).

French authority on English literature, and in particular on the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. The recipient (1878-1959) was editor of the 'London Mercury' at the time of writing. One page, quarto. In poor condition, with fraying and closed tears to edges. 'I herewith return revised proofs of my French Novelists. | May I remind you that I should be glad to have some galley proofs if it can be easily arranged?' Signed 'Georges Lafourcade'. Docketed in pencil at head ' Read - Proofs | Waugh - to-morrow.' Appears to refer to an article in the 'London Mercury', as Lafourcade does not appear to have published a book with this title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER WITH NO DJ. THIS IS INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO SENATOR C. A. SWANSON. From the Library of Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator Claude A. Swanson, Native Son of Pittsylvania County, Virgina. Swanson also served as FDR's Secretary of the Navy. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES. Inscribed by Author(s).

With Scott before the Mast (Special Limited Edition): These are the Journals of Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN when on board Captain Scott's "Terra Nova" Hardcover - Special Edition, by Francis Davies (Author) full black leather with gilt embossing, New in slipcase. One of only 160 copies, numbered and signed by editor, Joy Watts, and book designer and publisher, Nicholas Reardon My interview with Captain Scott, he explained what would be expected of me. My principal job, he said, would be the erection of Winter Quarters for the Southern party, which was to make an attempt to reach the South Pole. He also told me that I would be paid GBP40 a year, adding that if I made a success of the job, he wouldn't say what he would do for me, but if on the other hand, I failed to come up to scratch, I would be for the high jump. The geographic and scientific accomplishments of Captain Scott's two Antarctic expeditions changed the face of the Twentieth Century in ways that are still not widely appreciated over a hundred years later. The fact of accomplishment has tended to be lost in speculative argument as to how Scott should have done this instead of that, supposedly to achieve the extra few yards per day to save the lives of the South Pole Party in 1912. Also lost to a generation overwhelmed with information, however, is the sublime sense of adventure into the unknown, which Scott's expeditions represented to his generation. We have forgotten what it is to take the awesome life-gambling risk of sailing beyond the edge of the map into nothingness and rendering it known. We send robot explorers instead. As a result, after two millennia of maritime and exploration history, we have become detached from the sea which surrounds our island and the tradition of exploration which it represents. With Scott: Before the Mast is a unique account that serves as an antidote to this disconectedness. It is no fictional 'Hornblower', although it may seem so at times. This is a true story. It presents one man's account of his part in a great act of derring-do, the assault on the South Pole in 1912. Most records of Captain Scott's British Antarctic Expedition aboard Terra Nova (1910-1913) are the accounts of officers. With Scott: Before the Mast is the story of Francis Davies, Shipwright, R.N., and Carpenter. The title says it all but may be lost on landlubbers. Before the mast means 'to serve as an ordinary seaman in a sailing ship'. This makes it a rare and hugely important account, presenting a viewpoint from the lower ranks. Such insight is rarely available and the long overdue publication of this account is greatly to be welcomed. When I first read this manuscript some years ago, I was hugely excited by the refreshing perspective that it gave to a well-aired story. Although an autobiographical period piece, written with an eye to publication many years after the events that it recalls, it is still of great interest. It tells the often forgotten story of the vast majority of Scott's men, the sailors of Terra Nova; the supporting cast, if you like, to the Shore Parties of officers and scientists. Through a kaleidoscope of memories, this book gets to the heart of the huge logistic effort that was the British Antarctic Expedition.

Hard Cover. Signed First Edition, octavo, pp., 508. With maps and plates. White boards and silver titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by Sir Ranulph Fiennes to a Waterstones bookplate pasted to half-title. Slight soiling to boards and back panel of dust-jacket. Sir Ranulph is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. For the first time Scott's story is told by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott endured.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter written by Thomas Dillon and Co from Dungarvan, Ireland and dated 1739. Interesting content, talks of barley crops, loss of potato crop to frost, Sloop or schooner for freight to Amsterdam, shipping matters and Captain Scott's delay. Indistinct signature, looks like 'Rivers' Possibly linked to the Dillon family who represented the area in parliament. Size of letter is 230mm x 190mm. Folding centre creases. Edges lightly creased and nicked. Age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17625. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. GERMAN, sunning to spine, aging to pages, tight, unsure of publishing date inscription states 1966, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Typed letters signed: May 11, 1960, 10 x 7" no envelope, fold creases and tears, brittle. March 14, 1961, July 20, 1962, April 3, 1963, all aerogrammes 3.5 x 6", and opens up to 11.5 x 7", fold creases and small tears. Autograph note signed on letterhead, oblong 5 x 8", fold creases, light spotting, envelope has tears and spotting. The May 11, 1960 letter is on a spare sheet from the "Aurora Australis" journal which was created during the 1907-1908 expedition that was headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton, printed on this sheet are two penguins and the phrase "The Struggle For The Broom". All the items have notes or corrections. In the letters he thanks her for sending things such as a National Geographic, information on an IGY discussion, updated on Antarctic developments. Two of the piece sof correspondence have original drawings by Taylor. In the note for June 27, 1960 he regrets that Mrs. Andersen sent him American geological speicimiens as he knows little about them; he does a drawing of a fossil to try to explain it to her. On March 14, 1961, he writes "I think you might be interesting in a sort of model I drew of the continent last year. It teems to interest a lot of folk, and it is only from American i.g.y. work that we can reconstruct the build of Antarctica fairly (See overleaf)". Very detailed drawing. Life is winding down, he writes on July 20, 1962 that he must be the last surviving member of the party. The last letter, April 3, 1963 was written seven months before he died. Thomas Griffith Taylor, 1880-1963, served as a senior geologist on the Terra Nova expedition, responsible for the first maps and geological interpretations of significant areas of Antarctica. While Taylor was leading an expedition to Granite Harbour in late 1911, Captain Robert Scott and his crew journeyed to the South Pole in an attempt to be the first men to reach it. Unfortunately, Roald Amundsun beat him by a few weeks. Scott's party turned back, encountering severe weather, none made it back to safety. Five handwritten pieces of correspondence, all signed by Taylor Griffith with two original drawings. A total of six pieces with envelope. Plus a handwritten letter, nd (1960s) from NYC bookseller Stechert-Hafner, raving about Antarctica. Original handwritten Griffith letters and artwork are extremely SCARCE.

A biography of Scott taken to Antarctica by George Lowe, the official photographer on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with his inscription on the front free endpaper: "This book was given to me to take to Antarctica for our expedition 1955-58 George Lowe". Scott was an inspirational figure in Lowe's life and featured prominently in his autobiography Because It Is There (1959). George Lowe (1924-2013) was a New Zealand representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1955-58. The expedition was the first to reach the south pole by land since Amundsen and Scott in 1912. The men conducted extensive surveying as they traversed the continent. Lowe had met his fellow expedition member, Hillary, on the 1953 Everest expedition, which was the first to summit the mountain. A year later, on a mountaineering trip in New Zealand, he met Fuchs, the leader of the expedition, who invited him to join the crew. This copy is a fourth edition. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the event at George's Book Shop in Bristol, where they collected this book for the expedition. The event was organized by polar enthusiast Dorothy Irving Bell, who, through "her unaided efforts cajoled books on all subjects from authors and publishers, packing and finally despatching to the expedition ship a library of some 400 items. Her reward was not just the joy of accomplishing a worthwhile task, but in the many and lasting friendships made with members of the expedition and others" (obituary). Above Lowe's inscription is that of "Franklyn and Kathleen Fletcher with all good wishes 1955 Stogursey Somerset", who provided the book to Lowe. The work has the expedition library bookplate of a map of the expedition on the front pastedown and the ownership stamp of "A Fletcher" on the title page. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece, facsimile manuscript letter in text. Lacking pp. 111-14. Contemporary blue cloth, pale yellow coated endpapers. Cloth stained and soiled, spine sunned, spine ends and tips bumped, boards bowed, contents a little toned, gutter cracked opposite title page. A very good copy considering its journey.

Presentation copy of a later edition, with a lengthy inscription from the author to the doctor who attended to his father, Francis William Ponting (c.1842-1923), during his dying years in Southport. Herbert Ponting was personally invited by Scott to join the Terra Nova crew, and many of the plates are based on his fine photographs. Ponting's inscription, located on the front free endpaper of this fourth edition, reads, "My dear Mackie: My father had intended to give you this copy of my book as a small Xmas gift, which he thought you might like to have. He had asked me to send him this signed copy, to which he had intended to add a few words for the purpose. Owing to his death on December 22nd he was never able to add those words. So I personally ask you to accept the volume not only as a token of my father's affection for you, but also of my own deep appreciation of your devoted and untiring efforts to prolong his life. Yours gratefully, H. G. Ponting. Southport, December 24th 1923." Above the inscription is the signature and short inscription ("To Dr Campbell Mackie") Ponting originally provided for his father. The recipient is likely William Campbell-Mackie, who practised in Southport. Rosove 251.B3. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece, 95 half-tone plates, map in text. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and with expedition badge in red, 1967 ownership inscription of Clive Reginald Francis Crocker-Sherlock (b. 1945). Cloth lightly rubbed but well preserved, light foxing and toning internally: very good.