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First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.
First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.
First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.
First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.
First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.
First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.

PRIESTLEY, Raymond E.

Antarctic Adventure. Scott's Northern Party.

London, Fisher Unwin, 1914.

£750.00
£750.00

Antarctic Adventure.

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An account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, here covering the wild adventures and amazing survival of the so-called Northern Party – an episode which may in our time achieve greater popularity than the dour tragedy of Scott's polar march. A letter from Priestley survives in which he says that many copies of this first printing were destroyed in a warehouse fire.

First edition; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); frontispiece with tissue guard, 150 photographic illustrations, 3 folding maps; original light blue cloth, silver gilt lettering and pictorial vignettes to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, extremities a little rubbed, a few scuffs to upper board, spine faded, a little cocked, internally a very good copy; 382pp.

Taurus 80; Rosove 256.A1; Conrad p186; Spence 939.

Stock code 116823

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First edition of Raymond Priestley's Antarctic Adventure, Priestley's account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition and the amazing survival of the Northern Party.

Antarctic Adventure.

£750.00
£750.00

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