May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 96
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
PEARY, ROBERT E. The North Pole. Folding map, plates. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth with a gold medallion onlay, worn, tear to backstrip repaired; front hinge starting and partially reinforced; foxing to the preliminary and terminal leaves; bookplate on the front pastedown (Doy Bird). London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910

Additional Details

first english trade edition. Peary's famous expedition of 1908-09 on which he claimed to have reached the North Pole was first published in London in a limited, signed deluxe edition. Arctic Bibliography 13230 (note).

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