THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD BY DOUGLAS MAWSON 1915 AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

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[MAWSON, DOUGLAS]. The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London: William Heinemann, 1915.

FIRST U.K. EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO H.J. FOSTER, inscribed on preliminary blank in each volume "To Brigadier General H.J. Foster from Douglas Mawson, 1916"; complete in two volumes; cloth-bound; hardcover; quarto; pp. xxx, 348, [2]; xiii, [1], 337, [3]. English text. Bound in publisher's original blue pictorial cloth gilt; half-titles; photogravure frontispiece; 20 colour plates; over 270 photographic illustrations (mostly by Frank Hurley, 2 folding, several double-page); maps and plans; 3 colour-printed maps in pocket (as issued) at end of volume 2; illustrations in the text. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure. Slight damp-stain to lower cover of volume 1. Interiors well-preserved. Scarce thus.

Notes: Rare author's presentation copy of this classic account of the 1911-1914 Australian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson - inscribed to the General who supported his efforts to find war work after the expedition. The expedition discovered 1,320 miles of land, including the Mertz, Denman, and Scott Glaciers; the Davis Sea; and mapped 800 miles of coastline between Gaussberg and Cape Adare, along Adelie Land coast and beyond. [Conrad p.208; Rosove 217.A1a; Spence 774; Taurus 100].