WILD, Frank. Shackleton's Last Voyage. London, 1923. 1ST ED. Sheet signed by members of the Quest expedition laid in.
8vo (231 x 157 mm). Color-printed frontispiece, 100 photographic plates. Publisher's decorated blue cloth (slight wear at spine ends and corners, edges with slight spotting, hinges tender). Provenance: Owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper.FIRST EDITION, an account of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the Antarctic from 1929-1923, and also a personal memorial from Wild and others to Shackleton, who died aboard the Quest in January 1922 while anchored at Grytviken, South Georgia Island. Wild took command and carried out the original expedition plans, including making surveys of in the Weddell Sea, and of Elephant Island, Deception Island, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands. Conrad, p. 232; Rosove 349; Spence 1259.[Laid in:] Single sheet (removed from a notebook or autograph book) with signatures in ink of 12 members of the Quest expedition, including Shackleton, Wild, Worsley, and Macklin.
