No date, but this “New edition revised and considerably enlarged” is essentially a new work – a revised biography of the great polar hero, who had yet to launch his second career as a renowned humanitarian. So, first edition thus. In a pretty gilt-decorated red cloth pebbled binding, which is unfortunately sunned. With an equally pretty chromolithographed “Prize” bookplate, which is similarly unfortunately effaced, the prize winner’s name having been scratched off. Unfortunate price is only
