Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. x, 335 p. port., map. 24 cm. Includes: Maps, Portraits. Bibliography: p. [327]-335. Book condition excellent and clean; cover slightly chipped. read more
Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardback.
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy / NY
Date Published: 1951
Description: No dust jacket. Very good condition. 335p. Previous owner's name., Light wear to head and tail of spine., Light wear to extremities. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Hardcover w/unclipped Dustjacket. Not ex-library or remainder. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dustjacket shows some shelf wear with wear along the edges including a few tiny tears. Binding is tight and secure. I ship carefully and quickly with Delivery Confirmation always included on US orders! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good to Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 335 pgs. Clean with moderately rubbed cover edges and a narrow white strip on lower front cover where dj stuck to cover. Dj is moderately edgeworn. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY: Pellegrini & Cudahy
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. Cover has light wear, and surface marks; Some edgewear/corner wear and reading wear; All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover--cloth
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy,, New York, New York:
Date Published: 1951.
Description: Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo 9 1/4" tall, X + 335 pages, blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor rubbing at the corners, binding and hinges tight, paper lightly yellowed in a very good, edge worn dust jacket with slight chipping at the edges of the back strip. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, Nyack, NY
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 335 pp w/ index. Full blue cloth; slightly edge worn, else very good. Contents fine. Half-tone frontis portrait. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Near Fine(small bump on corner, faint wear to points); Eps bit aging, DJ sm wear spine ends; 335 pages. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover--cloth
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy,, New York, New York:
Date Published: 1951.
Description: Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 335 pages, blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a very good dust jacket with light edge wear, with the original price. read more
Description: 18.00. EX-LIBRARY, Spine reinforced by library, Sound Reading Copy. 335pp, Controversial polar explorer's North Pole expedition. If you REQUEST A SCAN from me I will send you one. Pellegrini (1951), read more
Description: Very Good-, Good++ 8VO, 334 pgs., frontispiece. Hardcover: Cloth binding with title on spine in gold. Lightly rubbed corners. Light foredge soil. Endpapers are foxed. Frontispiece. Interesting facts and details of the expedition and controversy. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Edgewear and chipping. Corners are rubbed and torn. Spine Is chipped and wrinkled. Front and back covers are lightly soiled and some fade. Desirable copy in protective mylar. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Burke, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Bound in red cloth with gilt titling. In good+ condition. Sunning to spine, minor rubbing to cover edges, light foxing to external page edges. Inscription on first blank page, a few spots of foxing on first few pages, otherwise clean internally. Binding is very good. 254 pages with 14 illustrations. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Burke, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Red cloth, protected with archival clear film, endpaper map, 254 pages, 14 b/w photo illustrations, bibliography, edited with an appraisal by Frederick J. Pohl. Cook's account of his journey back from the North Pole, made a hundred years ago, and written later in the 1930s, when he was seventy years of age. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy.
Date Published: 1951
Description: Cook wrote his final book in long hand between 1930-1935, but it was unpublished. These papers were edited, with an introduction, by Frederick J. Pohl, after Cook died, and the book was titled "Return from the Pole". Hardcover, dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece Portrait. Chronology, Bibliography. x + 335pp. Clean interior. A few pages have portions of edges or corners still uncut. ** flaws: a bit of fading at edges of spine ends and corner tips. Light scratch lines on rear ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Blue Hardcover is ex-library with typical markings, No dustjacket though both flaps have been pasted on the front free endpaper, a few small stains on cover. The story of the discovery of the North Pole and the controversy surrounding it. Who really discovered the north pole, Admiral Peary or Frederick Cook? read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York
Description: [1951]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 335pp. Frontispiece, map, chronology, notes, bibliography. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and some chipping along the spine, there is a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper, and there is some spotting on the top edges. "A true story of adventure and exploration A new chapter in the Cook-Peary controversy". Book about Frederick A. Cook. Edited with introduction by Frederick J. Pohl. Locale: North Pole. (Arctic/Polar, Cook ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very good in Good + Dustjackeet. Hardback octavo in blue cloth. 335 pages with a photographic frontispiece ot the author. Signed by the author's daughter, Helen Cook Vetter, on the front endpaper with a personalized inscription, dated October 3, 1952. Although this manuscript was completed in the late 1930's, it was published by the daughter after her father's death. This is Cook's defense against the charges that he falsified his trip to the north pole in 1908, one year before Peary's arrival ... read more
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