New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Light rubbing. Gilt bright. Bookplate to front paste down. Moderate foxing to pages on either side of illustrated pages, including frontispiece and title page. Else is quite clean. Filled with many photographic illustrations, nine maps, five of which are fold-out. Two larger fold-out maps are housed in a pocket at the rear. Stefannson was born in Canada in 1879 but lived most of his life in America. This was the first of several books by him on Arctic explorations. Index, 784 pages. ARCEXP/012326
Vilhjalmur Stefansson








