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Borup, George - A Tenderfoot with Peary; with a Preface by G.W. Melville, Rear Admiral U.S. N. Ret

Title: A Tenderfoot with Peary; with a Preface by G.W. Melville, Rear Admiral U.S. N. Ret
Description: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911. Second Edition, a Souvenir Edition for the American Bookseller's Dinner, Hotel Astor, May 11. 1911. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 317; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, a frontispiece and forty additional plates including a large folding map at the rear; white cloth and blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a title label on the upper board. Account of Peary's North Pole Expedition 1908-9 by the youngest member, who was with one of the support parties during the first stage of the march and a sledge journey with MacMillan along the northern coast of Greenland. A good copy, edge wear, some soiling but complete with all plates and the map .

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Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 17868

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