May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LEWIN, W. HENRY. The Great North Pole Fraud. Folding map. 8vo, publisher's cloth, bright and clean; dust jacket, very minor chips, some soiling; scattered minor foxing. London: C. W. Daniel Company, (1935)

Additional Details

first edition. inscribed by "the author" to dr. charles reckitt. Lewin strongly opposed Peary's claim and sought to discredit him in this and other works from the period. Scarce in the dust jacket. Arctic Bibliography 9997.

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