Frozen North, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/first printing with dustcover. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page ("To Billy / A whale of a guy"). Blue and red paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches, 143 pp., map. Book very good plus (modest spine slant). Dustcover very good plus (mild edge wear; not price-clipped). No markings except author's inscription/signature. A very nice copy of an interesting book. (Ignore ABE's stock image --- it is wrong --- my image is correct.) "A fifteen-year-old finds more adventure than he expected when he signs onto a whaler for three years."(3214043). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Signed by Calder with inscription on title pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; mild shelf wear, covers clean, spine toned. Binding tight and text unmarked. Trav. Stax.

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 279 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to his brother on title page. Black and white photographic plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Presentation copy "Dear Al, with Love, Bear, X", also owner's name top ffep, edges very yellowed but text block clean, binding tight, minimal wear to blue boards, jacket not clipped, has some general shelf wear, surface impressions, edge wear, tiny closed tear on edge of rear cover. Price reflects condition. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover book in very good condition. The pages are clean and free from and markings. This is not an ex-lib book. "Bill Lewis has lived and worked in Alaska for forty years. All that time, he has listened to stories told by people from all walks of life. Here are the characters he encountered whose lives, loves and laughter fill this book with infectious humor." Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight creasing around cover corners in places, otherwise in fine condition. Personalised signed copy - To Andy, Bear Grylls. Signed by Author(s).

[1957], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 279pp. Presentation label signed by the author pasted to the title page. Map endpapers, frontispiece, maps, photographs, index. The dust jacket has minor edgewear. Locale: ; North Pole. (Arctic/Polar, Voyages and Travels--Arctic).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. First Edition. Adventure a clean tight unmarked copy.signed and inscribed and dated by ArthurA Dietz on the FFEP.bumped corners and edgewear to the cover as well as yellowed pages.a nice copy, photos available upon request. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Calder travelled around Northern Canada to see how 'modern science' was being used to enable work in Arctic conditions. pp259. Illus. Endpaper maps. Worn DW is brodarted. Signed dedication to Capt. Kenneth Short. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Viking Press, 1964. Signed Presentation copy, First Edition; dustjacket lightly chipped/soiled/dampstained, otherwise intact; cover/spine edges/corners lightly rubbed/sunned; edges very barely soiled; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and relatively clean; text block and illustrations exceptionally clean and bright; due to the size of this item, additional shipping charges may apply. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Very good in the publisher's original, decorated light blue cloth covered boards with the remnants of bold gilt text stamping on the spine and red, white and gilt text and decorations on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4" by 5 1/4" with a prior owner's name faintly written on the first free end page. The cloth at the head and heel of the cloth are rubbed and worn as is the upper edge of the front board. Simply signed by the author - "Arthur A. Dietz | 1916" on the first free end page. 281 pages illustrated with line drawings from photographs by W. A. Sharp. The author tells the heartbreaking story of how he organized and led a group of 18 gold-seeking men into the Klondike in April, 1897. Only 4 of the 18 survived the rest died from accidents, exposure, and starvation with little to no gold to show for their efforts. (Kurutz-Klondike, 172; Graff,1083).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. "First American edition." New York: George F. Hopkins, 1802. Octavo in 4s (8 1/4" x 5 1/16", 210mm x 128mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding engraved map. Bound in modern half green morocco over green cloth by Riviere and Son (signed at the lower edge of the verso of the front free end-paper). On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel, author gilt to the third, date gilt to tail. Green marbled endpapers. Top edge of the text-block gilt. A little bowed, with some sunning to the spine. Evenly tanned throughout. Repaired tears to the lower edges of 2E2-4 and the fore-edge of 2S4, not affecting the text. The fore-edges of 2Z3-4 and 2N3-4 roughly cut. The map backed on linen, with some tanning and offsetting. Ink-stamped "Ex Libris H. Leslie Smith" and ballpoint inscription "H. Leslie Smith" to the front pastedown. Presentation inscription "To Les from Annabel Christmas 1948" to the verso of the front free end-paper. Red ink Chinese eight-character seal to the recto of the first binder's blank. Ex libris of Ted Benttinen laid in. Sir Alexander Mackenzie's (ca. 1764-1820) account of his exploration of North America is the first published account of Mackenzie's two expeditions carried out on behalf of the North West Company, as it aimed to establish new trade routes from the over-saturated market of Hudson's Bay. His success in these explorations made him "the first white man to cross the continent," demonstrating his journal to be one of "surpassing interest" (Wagner-Camp). Mackenzie departed Scotland with his father in 1774, and by 1779, had secured a position with Finlay, Gregory & Co., a prominent fur trading company in Montreal. This volume offers a comprehensive history of the fur trade, alongside Mackenzie's accounts of his travels through the continent. It also provides a glossary to several Indigenous languages. The map, "A Map of America Between Latitudes 40 and 70 North, and Longitudes 45 and 180 West, Exhibiting Mackenzie's rout from Montreal to Fort Chepewyan & thenee [sic] to the North Sea in 1789 and to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793" is one of the oldest of this area. Hill crowns Voyages from Montreal "one of the most important of Canadian books." Henry Leslie Smith (1932-2018) was an English political writer and social activist. After serving in WWII, Smith moved to Canada with his wife, Friede. Smith turned to writing after the death of his son and became a frequent contributor to The Guardian and a repeat guest on BBC radio. At the time of his death, Smith had written six books with content ranging from historical and political commentary to personal memoirs of his life and loss. Theodore "Ted" Benttinen (1948-2023) was an MIT-educated oceanographer and explorer who went to both poles on research missions. Benttinen amassed a formidable collection of books of exploration, particularly strong in Pacific voyages as well as in polar accounts. The present volume was lot 176 in the Sotheby's New York 9 December 2024 sale of his library. Sabin 43415.2; not in Hill; not in Wagner-Camp.