SHACKLETON, ERNEST. 1874-1922.

SHACKLETON, ERNEST. 1874-1922.
The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1909.
2 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, frontispieces, 12 colour plates after Marston, numerous photographic plates, 3 folding maps in pocket at end of volume II, illustrations in the text. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, top edges gilt. Shelfwear, spines slightly loose, creases to corners of some pages.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published in the same month and year as the London Heinemann edition, with slight differences in collation. Rosove 305.C1a; Spence 1098.