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PRIESTLEY, Raymond E.
Antarctic Adventure Scott's Northern Party
Fisher Unwin, London 1914. First edition. 8vo., 382pp., frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous photographic illustrations, 3 folding maps, "presentation copy" stamped on title-page, original light blue cloth lettered in silver, silver pictorial vignettes to spine and upper cover, spine faded; a very good copy.
An account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, here covering the wild adventures and amazing survival of the so-called Northern Party - an episode which may in our time achieve greater popularity than the dour tragedy of Scott's polar march. A letter from Priestley survives in which he says that many copies of this first printing were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Taurus 80; Rosove 256.A1; Conrad p186; Spence 939.
Price: £ 1250
US Dollar Price: $ 2480
Stock Number: 70017