May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
(COOK-PEARY CONTROVERSY.) Group of 12 volumes. 8vo, most in publisher's bindings; condition varies. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Keely, Robert. In Arctic Seas. Rebound. Philadelphia, 1892 Finding the North Pole. Introduction by Melville. Np, 1909 Discovery of the North Pole. Edited by Miller. Np, 1909 Peary. The Secrets of Polar Travel. New York, 1917 Hobbs, William Herbert. Peary. With dust jacket, edge tears. New York, 1936 Cook. Return from the Pole. London, 1953 Hunt, William. To Stand at the Pole. Dust jacket, torn. New York, 1981 Goodsell, John. On Polar Trails. Dust jacket, torn. Austin, 1983 Abramson, Howard. Hero in Disgrace. Dust jacket. New York, 1991 Coulter, S. Allen. North Pole Legacy. Amherst, 1991 Molett, William. Robert Peary & Matthew Henson at the North Pole. One of 1000 copies. Signed by the author. With the dust jacket. Frankfort, 1996 Bryce, Robert M. Cook & Peary. Dust jacket. Mechanicsburg, 1997.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.