The Home of the Blizzard. The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Kent Town, Wakefield Press in association with the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal, 1996 (first thus)/ 1930 (abridged edition).
Octavo, xxxii, 438, [2] ('Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal') pages with illustrations and maps plus numerous plates (reproducing 'over ninety original photographs').
Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper.
Number 23 of only 500 copies in boards; this copy is signed in ink by Mawson's two daughters, Patricia Thomas and Jessica McEwin, one of his grandsons (Andrew McEwin), and Dick Smith, Patron of the Mawson Antarctic Collection Appeal. This publication comprises a 'facsimile edition of the text of the [1930] abridged popular edition, featuring original images from the Mawson Collection'. Some related ephemera are loosely inserted.
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