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Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.

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Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
Mawson, Sir Douglas.
J. P. Lippincott, ( (1915)), Philadelphia
Two volumes, 25 cm. xxx, 348, (1); xiii, 337, (1) pp. Sepia toned photogravure frontispieces. Color and b/w plates, charts, illustrations
Price: $400

First edition. Mawson’s occasionally perilous adventures in King George V Land and Adelie Land which, at that time were unexplored. Spence 773. Rosove 217.A2, who considers this the first state of the first edition. (See p. 246.) This is a fine untrimmed copy, with the errata slip in Vol I, two sheets of British Antarctic Territory first day covers laid in, and three folding duotone maps in back pocket of volume II. Handsomely rebound in quarter black morocco over marbled boards with red spine labels.