Item #112605 The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909. With ... an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David. E. H. SHACKLETON.

SHACKLETON, E.H.

The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909. With ... an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David

London, William Heinemann, 1909 [first edition].

Quarto, two volumes, xlviii, 372 and xvi, 419 pages plus all plates as required and 3 folding maps and a folding panorama in an endpocket (but without the errata slip in the second volume).

Silver-pictorial cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut; covers a little rubbed, marked and bumped; spines sunned, with a few short splits to the joints, and to one head; ownership details to both flyleaves (one of which is creased); top portion of the half-title of the first volume excised (presumably to remove earlier ownership details), with subsequent offsetting to the recto of the frontispiece; a decent set (internally excellent).