Author: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Title: Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic (Signed); Introduction by Stephen Leacock, Telling How This Book Came to Be Written
Description: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.75 in. pp. xi + 2 (contents) + 381. Illustrated with four maps. Inscribed by author on front freepaper, dated 1939. Dark blue boards with graphic title in silver to front and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Light age-toning to paper. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Several chips to top and front edges, corners, and top and bottom of spine of dustjacket. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. AB 16873, OCLC 486687. The 1939 inscription reads: "Inscribed to Elizabeth Macauley by Vilhjalmur Stefansson at the suggestion of their friend Evelyn Baird". In 1941, Stefensson and Baird married. The book tells five tales of Arctic mysteries: Disappearance of the Greenland Colony, The Lost Franklin Expedition, The Strange Fate of Thomas Simpson, How Did Andree Die?, The Missing Soviet Flyers. Very Good Plus / Good .
Keywords: Adventure Stories, Arctic Expedition, Thomas Simpson, S.A. Andree
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Title: Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic (Signed); Introduction by Stephen Leacock, Telling How This Book Came to Be Written
Description: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.75 in. pp. xi + 2 (contents) + 381. Illustrated with four maps. Inscribed by author on front freepaper, dated 1939. Dark blue boards with graphic title in silver to front and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Light age-toning to paper. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Several chips to top and front edges, corners, and top and bottom of spine of dustjacket. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. AB 16873, OCLC 486687. The 1939 inscription reads: "Inscribed to Elizabeth Macauley by Vilhjalmur Stefansson at the suggestion of their friend Evelyn Baird". In 1941, Stefensson and Baird married. The book tells five tales of Arctic mysteries: Disappearance of the Greenland Colony, The Lost Franklin Expedition, The Strange Fate of Thomas Simpson, How Did Andree Die?, The Missing Soviet Flyers. Very Good Plus / Good .
Keywords: Adventure Stories, Arctic Expedition, Thomas Simpson, S.A. Andree
Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85638
- Book number: 85638
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