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Mawson, Douglas THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD. BEING

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Mawson, Douglas  THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD. BEING
Mawson, Douglas THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD. BEING THE ACCOUNT OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1911-1914. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1915) 2 vols xxx,349;xiii,338pp. Many plates and maps incl. 3 folding laid in back of vol two. Original dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Lettered in silver on front & spine, silver vignette ("Leaning on the Wind") on front. A fine, clean & tight copy, essentially "as new" in the original printed & illustrated white dust jackets. The jackets are just very slightly chipped but are completely intact & quite clean.

Rosove 217.A2a; Spence 773. The first U.S. edition, bound from the sheets of the first London edition, but with some variation in the illustrations. Very rare in this condition and with dust jackets. See colour illustration.