The Life Of Sir Ernest Shackleton

Published by Heinemann, London, UK, 1923. 1st edition. Original cloth gilt. Pp. xv + 322. The earliest biography of his life by the distinguished Polar explorer and geographer Hugh Robert Mill. Illustrated with 20 plates and 4 maps. Binding nice and tight. Cloth and gilt bright and clean with one small mark to the front board. Very slightly rubbed to the edges. Neat inscription dated ’23 to the front free endpaper with minor toning to the page edges. Foxing to the half-title, light foxing to the title page with only occasional light foxing to the text otherwise pages and plates nice and clean. Overall a very good plus copy indeed. Scarce in this condition.