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CONTRIBUTORS' EDITION (NORTH POLE.) Wilkins, Sir Hubert. Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition. Photographic plates,

CONTRIBUTORS' EDITION (NORTH POLE.) Wilkins, Sir Hubert. Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition. Photographic plates, including two studio portraits of Wilkins by Hal Phyfe, signed by Phyfe; map. Errata slip. 4to, original 1/2 black morocco with silver- and gilt-stamped spine; aluminum slipcase and lid. [New York]: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, (1931)

  • Notes: "contributors' edition." one of only twenty-nine numbered copies, this number 11. Wilkins published this history of the proposed expedition as a fundraising scheme before his attempt to cross the North Pole under the ice. According to note on page [3], "This volume has been carried on the Polar voyage of the submarine Nautilus. The signatures of the Expedition's personnel have been entered here at the 'farthest north' attained, as here indicated." However, due to the failure of the expedition, no signatures are present. Arctic Bibliography 19493 (trade edition).

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