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Green, Fitzhugh.

Peary: The Man Who Refused To Fail.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Josephine Diebitsch Peary. An engaging history of the Arctic explorer who was, allegedly, the first man to set foot at the North Pole. Includes accounts of earlier Arctic trips. Very Good. Light shelf/edge wear, discrete pencil ownership signature at ffep, small closed tear at mid-hinge of the tissue guard (binding error common to this issue), gilt toned, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, frontispiece, tissueguard, map endpapers, teg. 8vo. 404pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Item #10756

Price: $45.00