Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton’s men . . . Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Name: Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton’s men . . . Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Author: Murray, James & George Marston.

Book Description

Limited deluxe signed edition. 4to. pp. [ii, blank], [ii. limitation leaf], xxi, 199; frontis. and three other mounted plates, other plates and illusts. inc. some from photos.; age-toning to endpapers, else very good in original cloth with colour plate to front board, t.e.g., rather browned on spine and to margins of boards. Signed by the authors and by Ernest Shackleton to the recto of limitation leaf.

Dealer Notes

Spence 830; Renard 1121; Rosove 236.A1b (“Very scarce”). Murray and Marston were members of Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition 1907-9, the former as biologist, the latter as artist (he later joined Shackleton’s Endurance expedition). “The authors spin yarns of personal and human experiences of the expedition with gentle humor and the gift of storytelling” (Rosove). A chapter is devoted to the Aurora Australis, the book printed in Antarctica during the expedition for which Marston provided the illustrations, some of them reproduced here. The book was issued in this deluxe edition signed by the authors and Shackleton, and in a trade edition.

Author Murray, James & George Marston.

Date 1913

Binding Original cloth

Publisher London: Andrew Melrose

Condition See description

Pages [ii, blank], [ii. limitation leaf], xxi, 199

Price: £7500.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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