The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 – 1914

Illustrated in colour and black and white also with maps. London : William Heinemann, 1915. Two volumes, thick octavo, original gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay (spines dulled, corners bumped, lightly marked, wrinkling to cloth on spine in first volume), top edges gilt, pp xxx, 349; xiii, 338; extensively illustrated with colour and black and white plates, light foxing to edges and preliminaries, three folding maps contained in a pocket at rear of volume 2; a very good set of one of the great Antarctic journeys.

Spence, 774

Provenance :

Frank Russell, Bookseller, Dundee, his bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedowns

A. Neil Milne, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, his signatures to preliminaries.