The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
London, William Heinemann, [1915] (first edition, second state).
Quarto, two volumes, xxx, 349 pages with 17 maps, plans and illustrations plus a photogravure frontispiece, 8 leaves of colour plates with captioned tissue-guards and 108 leaves of plates from photographs (one folding and 3 double-page); and xiv, 339 pages with 20 maps, plans and illustrations plus a photogravure frontispiece, 10 leaves of colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, and 93 leaves of plates (one folding and 4 double-page).
Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver; bottom edges uncut; cloth very slightly rubbed and marked; both volumes recased, retaining the original endpapers, with expert conservation to the head of the spine of Volume I; leaves adjacent to the colour plates a little tanned; a few tissue-guards slightly crumpled; occasional unobtrusive finger marks or other signs of handling; trifling flaws to a handful of leaves in Volume II; overall, in excellent condition.
A presentation set, inscribed and signed by the author to 'Professor J.A. Prescott | With kind regards | D. Mawson | 8/7/25' in both volumes (with the addition of the word 'To' at the start of the second inscription). In 1925 Professor James Arthur Prescott (1890-1987) had recently assumed the Chair of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Adelaide, where Mawson was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. This set is from the London issue of the first edition. Anticipating stronger sales in America following the outbreak of the First World War in Europe, Heinemann shipped the initial print run to America for publication by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, meaning that the London issue can be considered the second issue or state (see Rosove, pages 245-6). Conrad, page 208; Spence 774; Renard 1021; Taurus 100; Rosove 217.A1. [2 items].
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