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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 3 OF 280 DE LUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY MURRAY, MARSTON AND SHACKLETON on the half-title, Andrew Melrose, 1913
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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 3 OF 280 DE LUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY MURRAY, MARSTON AND SHACKLETON on the half-title, 4 mounted colour plates after watercolours by C. Day (with captioned tissue guards), 33 full-page plates (some photographic), illustrations, occasional light spotting, publisher's cloth, plate mounted on upper cover (as issued), t.e.g., 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: Ethel Edith Mannin (1900-1984), travel writer and author, inscribed "Christmas 1922. To my father with love from Ethel" on the front free endpaper; by descent to the current owner.



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