A Visit to Nansen ... Adventure.
Book Description
First edition thus. 8vo. pp. 23; self-portrait frontispiece of Nansen, portrait of Shackleton from a photograph; original tipped-in label at rear; foxing at front and rear, else very good in original cloth- backed boards, paper lettering pieces to upper cover, lacking label to spine, faded on spine, spotting to boards. A presentation copy from Whitehouse, inscribed by him to flyleaf.
Dealer Notes
Spence 1255; Renard 1691; Rosove 1343. Whitehouse met Nansen in 1928 when he accompanied a party of school-children to Norway to present him with a model of his "Farthest North" expedition. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer he had also, in 1914, had some dealings with Shackleton, who was then asking for Government assistance with the Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton's piece "Adventure" originally appeared in a Boys' League magazine in 1914.
Author
Whitehouse, J. H.; Sir Ernest E. Shackleton.
Date
1928
Binding
Original cloth-backed boards
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
See description
Pages
23
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