South

By Sir Ernest Shackleton

Signed “F.A. Worsley, Captain of the S.Y. Endurance”

London, Heinemann, 1919. First Edition, First Impression. 8vo., [xxi], 358 pp., errata slip tipped in at title page, colour frontispiece, 5 maps (1 folding), 87 photographic plates (1 double-page) by Frank Hurley, 2 sketch plans in text, usual brown toning to paper owing to poor paper stock, original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver. No prior ownership markings, silver on front cover and spine is in very good condition and unchipped, intermittent light spotting to blue cloth. A complete copy in very good and complete condition. Rare. —Taurus 105; Conrad p224; Rosove 308.A1.

The amazing story of Ernest Shackleton’s famous Endurance Expedition, and probably the most evocative narrative of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, telling of the survival of Shackleton and his crew under the most extreme circumstances.