Fitzhugh Green: PEARY: The Man Who Refused To Fail , New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1926.

1st Edition: Foreword by Josephine Diebitsch Peary. [2],(i)-viii,404pp, illustrated, portrait frontispiece, 19 b/w plates. Map endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. Arctic Bibliography 6126. A biography of the Arctic explorer who was allegedly the first man to set foot at the North Pole. Also includes information of his lesser discussed earlier Arctic trips, including his crossing of Greenland. Shelfware, Titling to spine rubbed and indistinct. Owners stamp on fep and title page, frontispiece tissue paper guard loosening. Contents clean. Good. (Book ref. 2296)  £25.00

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