May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
FIALA, ANTHONY. Fighting the Polar Ice. Folding map, numerous plates. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth; minor foxing to the endpapers, else a nice copy. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906

Additional Details

first edition. "Narrative of the Ziegler Polar Expedition, 1903-05, financed by William Ziegler, on which a thirty-five man party aboard the ship America proceeded to Rudolph Island, northernmost Franz Josef Land, where the ship was lost in the ice . . . Describes the party's three efforts to reach the North Pole"--Arctic Bibliography 4938.

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