Shelfmark
Id6.2.10
Title
The Antarctic book : Winter Quarters, 1907-1909 / [edited by Ernest Shackleton, with plates by George Marston].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : William Heinemann, MCMIX [1909] ([London] : Ballantyne and Company Limited, at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London)
Physical description
[6], 53 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Note
White leather quarter-binding; grey smooth card boards; title stamped in gold on spine; gilt top-edge; rough fore-edges; various watermarks on paper ('Van Gelder Zonen' and '1907 BAE 1909'; 'Scriyia Fine' with shield and 'T' motif; windmill and 'W. H.'; a regal motif); leaves for shore party's signatures with illustrated header, 'The British Antarctic Expedition 1907 1909'.
Note
"Published as a third volume to the "de luxe" edition of "The heart of the Antarctic" (Id6.2.08-Id6.2.09) -- British Library catalogue.
Note
"Of this book only 300 copies have been printed for sale. The type is distributed and it will not be reprinted" -- half-title verso.
With note
With: Shackleton, Ernest. The heart of the Antarctic. London : William Heinemann, 1909 (two vol., special issue).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Erebus : a poem by E.H. Shackleton -- Bathybia, or what might have been at the South Pole, by D. Mawson -- Signature of every member of the shore party.
Provenance
Ms. signatures for the shore party: Ernest Shackleton, Ray Priestley, Frank Wild, Ernest Joyce, Bernard Day, Philip L. Brocklehurst, J. B. Adams, Eric Marshall, Aeneas L. Mackintosh, B. Armytage, Williams C. Roberts, James Murray, Geo. E. Marston, A. Forbes Mackay, J.W. Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson.
Binding
Without dust-jacket.
Subject
British Antarctic Expeditio (1907-1909)
Genre/Form
Exploration literature.
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Marston, George illustrator.
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Mawson, Douglas, 1882 - 1958 editor.
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Heinemann publisher.
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Ballantyne Press printer.
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England London.
Identifier
B43783