Fine Books and Manuscripts

Fighting the Polar Ice. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1907.8vo. Photographic illustrations, folding map. (Hinge starting.) Publisher's green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (light rubbing, corners bumped). Second edition. Account of the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition from the perspective of Anthony Fiala, an American explorer who accompanied the expedition as a photographer and commander. "Though the expedition failed of its object through an unprecedented experience of unfavourable conditons linked with the loss of the ship, it did not return without results and the records of its work."