The Andree Diaries Being the Diaries and Records of S A Andree, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel - Written during their balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897 and discovered on White Island in 1930 - Together with a complete record of the expedition and discovery

The Andree Diaries Being the Diaries and Records of S A Andree, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel - Written during their balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897 and discovered on White Island in 1930 - Together with a complete record of the expedition and discovery. Edward Adams-Ray. 1931. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 8vo. (5.5" x 8.5") With original dust jacket. 471 pp. Full red cloth with faded gilt title & publisher on spine and bright gilt title on cover. Almost no edgewear, spine sun-faded, lighter splotches to boards. Top edge reddened. Bookplate of "LR" to front pastedown, prior owners name neatly to head of first free endpaper dated 1931. Foxing to fore-edge of text block with intermittent foxing throughout, heavier to front and rear of text block. With Good original dust jacket, soiled with some chips and edgewear, now protected with a Brodart protective cover. A newspaper obituary from someone mentioned in the text taped to the bottom off page 452. Illustrated with dozens of photographs and drawings, charts and maps, three of the maps folded, the larger in color towards the rear of the text.