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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol., first trade edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To H.J.L. Dunlop in remembrance of the Expedition from the author E.H. Shackleton Nov. 1909", William Heinemann, 1909 image 1
SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol., first trade edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To H.J.L. Dunlop in remembrance of the Expedition from the author E.H. Shackleton Nov. 1909", William Heinemann, 1909 image 2
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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)
The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol., first trade edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To H.J.L. Dunlop in remembrance of the Expedition from the author E.H. Shackleton Nov. 1909", William Heinemann, 1909

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SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)

The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol., first trade edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To H.J.L. Dunlop in remembrance of the Expedition from the author E.H. Shackleton Nov. 1909", half-titles, frontispieces, 12 coloured plates, 199 mostly photographic plates (of which 4 double-page), illustrations, one folding panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps loose as issued (inserted in pocket at end of volume 2), errata slip, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spines, new endpapers [Rosove 305.B1; cf. Taurus 57], 4to, William Heinemann, 1909

Footnotes

PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SHACKLETON TO H.J.L. DUNLOP, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE NIMROD, an important member of the expedition "who not only kept his department going smoothly on board but was the principal constructor of the hut" (The Heart..., vol.1, p.116). Dunlop is also acknowledged as one of those who contributed photographs ("secured often under circumstances of exceptional difficulty") used in the book. That illustrated here depicts "Marston trying to revive memories of other days".

Provenance: Henry Dunlop (1876-1931), presentation inscription by Shackleton in volume one, and Dunlop's inscription in volume 2; by descent to the present owner.

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