May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WILKINS, HUBERT. Under the North Pole. The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition. Silver print portrait of Wilkins by Hal Phyfe, other plates. 8vo, publisher's 1/2 cloth, some foxing to the covers, light wear; front hinge split. With the errata slip. [New York]: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, [1931]

Additional Details

de luxe edition. one of 275 numbered copies signed by wilkins, danenhower and may. This copy number 18. Additionally inscribed to Levinson in 1993 by Raymond Drakio, the assistant engineer on and the last surviving member of the Nautilus. "A work unusual in Arctic literature, Wilkins' volume anticipates rather than reports the 1931 expedition of the Nautilus, an under-ice experiment"--Books on Ice 8.5; Arctic Bibliography 19493.
with--Wilkins. Flying the Arctic. Inscribed. New York, 1928 Thomas, Lowell. Sir Hubert Wilkins. London, 1962 Anderson, William. Nautilus 90 North. Inscribed. Cleveland, 1959 Calvert, James. Surface at the Pole. Inscribed. New York, 1960.

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