Lot 1144
  • 1144

Shackleton, Ernest--Worsley, Frank Arthur

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Shackleton's Boat Journey. London: Philip Allan, [1933]
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, small 8vo (167 x 105mm.), [8], 9-192pp., original blue cloth, illustrated dust-jacket, slipcase

Provenance

Shackleton family, stamp on the front free endpaper “The Shackleton Collection”; “Swinford” in pencil on endleaf (Shackleton’s house)

Literature

Rosove 361.B1; Spence 1279

Catalogue Note

The first separate account of Shackleton's famous escape from Elephant Island to South Georgia to summon help for the trapped crew of the Endurance.