problem meighen island intended third de stefansson vilhjalmur (3 résultats)

iii,257-328 pp. Octavo. Bound in limp black leather over thin card boards. Two maps. A fine clean copy. Arctic Biblio. 16850. Suppressed due to the threat of libel by Federick Cook. Half of this private edition went to Robinson, half to Stefansson. None were ever for sale. Very scarce. This copy has a great inscription to the pioneer Canadian arctic geologist and my friend Ray Thorsteinsson. "To R. Thorsteinsson, in tribute to the solution of the Krueger mystery in connection with his visit to Meighen Island from Vilhjalmur Stefansson August 2/57" A wonderful association of one arctic explorer to another with the solution to an arctic mystery tossed in and a connections to Cook! Rare to say the least.

Disbound. First Edition. Unbound consisting of loose signatures (5-3/4" x 8-5/8"); [iv], 257-328 pages; housed in a morocco-backed clamshell box. Illustrated with two maps. Copy #112 of 300, this copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Stefansson below the imprint on the title page on 26 June 1943 "For Palmer Putnam, some escapist/reading from his old friend/Vilhjalmur Stefansson." The Explorers Club declined to print this chapter in UNSOLVED MYSTERIES as they feared a libel action from Frederick Cook. Stefansson's friend Robinson undertook the printing instead, and half the copies went to him and half to Stefansson (the even-numbered copies as here) for distribution among their colleagues. Palmer Cosslett Putnam [1900-1984] is a known correspondent of Steffanson. He was both a wind-power pioneer and sometime President of G. P. Putnam Sons publishing company. Expected wear for such an item. Very Good in a Near Fine box with a couple of points of wear.

Etat : Fine. 22 cm; iii, [1], 257-328, [4] pages. Map prior to text. Printed on laid paper. Unbound, in gatherings, Enclosed in matching publisher's envelope with corresponding copy number (140) in manuscript. Envelope worn. Reference: AB 16850. Extremely rare, unsophisticated copy of the explorer's account of an uninhabited, icebound island in Nunavut that may or may not have been visited by Frederick Cook a few years earlier. Against the author's wishes, it was censored from the 1938 Explorers Club edition of Stefansson's "Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic" for fear of libel action. In a short preface, Stefansson explains that odd-numbered copies of the private printing were reserved for the publisher, while even-numbered copies (including this copy) belonged to the author. This copy never bound. #140 in an edition of 300 copies, numbered in ink.