Greenland by Vilhjalmur Stefansson - 1944

Doubleday Doran, 1944. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. In green cloth. No jacket. .

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good cloth hardcover (no dust jacket) shows very faint taining at top edge portion of front cover, bumping to corners, light bit of soil, touch of foxing at top page edges and some other very light trace wear, else tight and clean. 338 pages with illustrations, index and endpaper maps. Solid copy of this work on Greeland by the noted expolorer.

NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1947. DJ bumped, chipped and torn that has been repaired by tape. Cover bumped with edgewear. Spine has silver gilt writing. Pgs clean, tight and browning.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8v-Large.

Collectible Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good+ Mylar Protected Dust Jacket 1944. Clean 338 pp. Fantastic journey into Irish Monk and Viking Greenland. Fine study of Celtic voyages to Greenland and Norse and later history and Native Greenland by a learned Icelandic American. One of the very best and very few educated books to speak about Irish Christian seafaring in the north Atlantic and specifically Greenland. Photos of Irish influenced architecture in Norse stone houses. Drawings of stone Cairns. Rare in such great shape for wartime made books. Even several pages still uncut. Great reading on Vikings and Celtic in early and late medieval Greenland by a Icelandic American authority on the Arctic. endpapers. NOT a library copy. Hints of wear here and there but truly hardly any. Wonderful rare to find with excellent jacket. See our Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books scans

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. 338 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate. 4 additional illustrations including a map of Greenland. Pencil notations on some pages, otherwise pages good condition. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Green cloth with silver and black label and titles. Edges and corners lightly worn. VG. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1943. Scarce with DJ. 1st UK edition. 240 pages. Pages clean and good condition with light foxing on the edges. With 13 illustrations in half-tone, 3 in line and a map. Endpapers are map of the Arctic. DJ has slight chipping at top and bottom of spine, slight wear on the edges, small stains. VG/VG-. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG-.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. 8vo. Pp. viii, 338, frontis map, b/w ills. Green cloth with black and silver lettered spine. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, map endapers, clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Dust jacket price clipped, with light bumping and creasing to the corners and spine ends, rear cover with a few small stains and a small stain to the front cover. From the library of nationally renowned collector of rare books and manuscripts Dr. Otto Orren Fisher, with his bookplate to the verso of the front endpaper, with an inscription from the author, "For Dr. Otto O Fisher on learning from his daughter that he might be interested in the story of Greenland as it looks to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, December 16, 1946.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. 338 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white plates throughout. Endpapers feature a map of Greenland and the surrounding area. Inscribed and SIGNED on the front flyleaf. Page edges are lightly darkened. Green publisher's stain on top. Bound in green cloth with silver titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Some light staining on the upper cover. Illustrated dustjacket in fair condition with white titles. Heavily worn around the edges with large chips, creases, and tears. Puncture holes and scuffs on the spine. Large creases on the back of the jacket. 1ST EDITION. NPC. VG/FAIR. Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.