Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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MACMILLAN, Donald B. (1874?1970). Four Years in the White North. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [1918]. Royal 8vo. Numerous plates from photographs by the author, 3 maps. Contemporary half morocco gilt, marbled sides, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, top edge gilt, stamp?signed by F.J. Barnard (spine sunned, rubbing along joints and near corners, some separation to front joint). FIRST EDITION with code ?K?S? on copyright in a deluxe binding. INSCRIBED BY MACMILLAN TO H.O. UNDERWOOD. An account of Macmillan?s first polar trip in which he was the Commander of the Crocker Land Expedition in 1913 which lasted for four years, traveling some 10,500 miles along the Greenland coast and the Polar Sea. Arctic Bibliography 10673.