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Seller's Description:
Very good. 1st Edition. 220pp. Octavo. Illustrated with plates from photos (including frontispiece). Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Original pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket has had professional restoration on the spine, joints and corners. Restoration was fairly extensive but there were no major missing pieces. Spence 642. First & only edition and very scarce. Narrative of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's "Endurance" expedition, sent to lay depots for the proposed crossing of the continent. This was the copy of Ray Adie (purchased from his sale of books last year) and was probably given to him by Rudmose Brown who reviewed this particular copy. Inscription on front endpaper.
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Seller's Description:
[1-4], 5-220. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations include a full page chart and 32 photographic plates including the frontispiece. A very good to fine copy. Spence 642, Rosove 188. A1.a. Taurus 106. First & only edition and thus scarce. Narrative of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition; the "Endurance" was sent to lay depots for the proposed crossing of the continent. This book contains a very good inscription; it is dedicated by the author to Captain A. F. Baker on the half title. Whilst inscriptions from Joyce are not particularly scarce, this one includes a quotation from the poem "The Quitter" by Robert Service. Joyce was an admirer of Service, as was Shackleton. Joyce described Service as "the Canadian Kipling", and excerpts from "The Quitter" appear in the South Polar Trail. Joyce often signed his books with the Maori phrase "Kia Ora", and it appears here too. Joyce also lists the dates of his Antarctic expeditions in the inscription. The front free end paper has the name and address of a G. M. Baker, possibly a descendant of A. F. Baker.
