Such is the Antarctic CHRISTENSEN, Lars (1884-1965), [JAYNE, E.M.G., translator] Publication Date: 1935 Condition: Very Good

Title: Such is the Antarctic

Publisher: London: Hodder and Stoughton

Publication Date: 1935

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition

First edition, first issue. 265; [3] printed pages. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Very slight spotting and browning to edges and preliminaries. Inner hinge split. The Second Issue has the extra four maps. It is thought these maps were not ready for the First Edition. 16 x 23 cm. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and map endpapers. Corners slightly bumped. A very good copy with the illustrated dust-jacket. Price-clipped Jacket lightly browned and shelf worn. Several chips, some quite large, from corners, edges and spine head and tail. Some tape stains on underside of dustjacket. The whaling magnate and expedition financier Christensen made three journeys to the Antarctic between 1930-34, one of which took him on a circumnavigation of the continent. Spence 292. Seller Inventory # 5118