[WILD, COMMANDER FRANK]. Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest. From the Original Journal and Private Diary Kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1923.
FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; Royal octavo (24 x 16 x 6 cm); pp. xvi, 372. English text. Bound in publisher’s original cloth decorated in gilt and black; gilt decorated vignette of the Quest to the front panel; pictorial endpapers by Garth Jones; half-title; illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, numerous maps and over 100 illustrations from photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Covers well-preserved with very slight dulling to spine and rubbing to the spine ends. Interior largely fresh and clean with a previous owner name and date neatly inked to title-page.
Notes: A handsome copy of this account of Shackleton's final voyage as told by his second in command and successor Frank Wild, who took over command of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition upon Shackleton's unfortunate death, completing the journey to Elephant Island and along the Antarctic coast while combating unfavourable weather conditions. The expedition made its returned to Plymouth on September 16, 1922, one year after its initial departure. Shortly thereafter, Wild published this account, which reproduces some of the last photographs of Shackleton. Taurus 112; Rosove 349.A1.
