Nearest the Pole A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906

Nearest the Pole, A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906. With Ninety-Eight Illustrations by the Author and Two Maps. R. E. Peary. 1907. London: Hutchinson & Co. 4to. (7" x 10.25") Lacking dust jacket. 411 pp. Full black cloth with gilt vignette of dog sled to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled. Sun-faded spine, rear board heavily stained, fabric starting to pucker. Colored frontispiece separated from spine, laid in. Title page in red and black. Gutter split at final page, mesh visible. Small closed tear to spine edge of the first of two folding maps. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, all accounted for.