My Attainment of the Pole (First Edition)

First edition. New York: The Polar Publishing Co., 1911. 4to. Original brown cloth hardcover. Pages: frontispiece, [ii], xx, 604. 31 plates (incl. frontispiece) of photographs and diagrams.

Bound in original Red-Brown publisher's cloth. Lettering to cover and spine stamped in gilt. Illustration of three heads on cover blocked in black, brown, and cream. Very Good. Some weathering along binding edges and at spine creases. Binding loosening slightly at front. Minor age toning along edges of text block. Contents have some toning and spotting here and there, otherwise clean and bright. 

Various newspaper clippings related to journey included. Cover and spine stamped in gilt and black. Illustration of three people stamped in gilt on cover. Frontispiece features photograph of Dr. Frederick A. Cook. Cook's narrative of his shoe-string expedition on which he claimed to have reached the north pole. The first edition is much scarcer than the 1912 and 1913 reprints.

Full title: My Attainment of the Pole: Being a Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of The Polar Controversy.

Provenance: From the library of Warwick H. Williams.

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