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Wilkins, Sir Hubert

Under the North Pole. The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition

New York Brewer, Warren & Putnam [circa 1931], 1st Deluxe edition ltd to 275 copies. (Hardcover)xiv,346pp. Very good. With numbered print of studio portrait of Wilkins by Hal Phyde not in trade edition, b&w plates (both sides) from photos, illustration (map). Bound in 1/2 blue cloth and boards, top edge gilt. Some flaking of gilt on spine else fine copy of the deluxe edition. AB 19493 (Trade Edition only).Account of an expedition under Wilkins to explore the Arctic Basin north of West Spitzbergen in the submarine Nautilus, in 1931.

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