[MAWSON, Douglas, Sir]. The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London: William Heinemann, 1915.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION 'PRESENTATION COPY'; complete in two volumes, cloth bound, hardcover, thick octavos, pp. xxx, 348, [2]; xiii, [1], 337, [3]. English text. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver, half-titles, photogravure frontispieces, profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, and plans throughout (some folding, 21 in colour), and 3 folding maps in pocket at back of volume II. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight, secure and square. Covers nicely preserved with slight bumping to spine ends. Contents complete and largely fresh and clean with just a few light fox spots. 'Presentation Copy' blind stamped to title-page of both volumes. A handsome set.
Notes: First edition, first impression, 'presentation copy' of this classic account of the 1911-1914 Australian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson. 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. Rosove 217.A1; Spence 774.
