Item #17868 A Tenderfoot With Peary; With A Preface By G. W. Melville, Rear Admiral U.S.N. Ret. George Borup.

A Tenderfoot With Peary; With A Preface By G. W. Melville, Rear Admiral U.S.N. Ret.

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;. A good copy, edge wear, some soiling but complete with all plates and the map. Item #17868

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.

Price: $30.00

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