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Lot 132

MURRAY (JAMES) AND GEORGE MARSTON
Antarctic Days. Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life by Two of Shackleton's Men... Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton, NUMBER 208 OF 280 DE LUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY MURRAY, MARSTON AND SHACKLETON, Andrew Melrose, 1913

7 February 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MURRAY (JAMES) AND GEORGE MARSTON

Antarctic Days. Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life by Two of Shackleton's Men... Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton, NUMBER 208 OF 280 DE LUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY MURRAY, MARSTON AND SHACKLETON, 4 mounted colour plates after watercolours by C. Day (with captioned tissue guards), 33 full-page plates (some photographic), illustrations, publisher's cloth, colour plate mounted on upper cover (as issued), t.e.g., small stains on spine, slightly rubbed [Spence 830; Taurus 61], 4to, Andrew Melrose, 1913

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LIMITED DE LUXE EDITION of an important account of the Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. "For the first time an unofficial, and therefore more human document, is presented to the public ... I would advise anyone who wants to get to the kernel of the life of a Polar explorer to read the book" (Shackleton, Introduction).

Provenance: Henry J.L. Dunlop (1876-1931), Chief Engineer on the Nimrod; by descent to the present owner.

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