Hurley, Frank: ARGONAUTS OF THE SOUTH. BEING A NARRATIVE OF VOYAGINGS AND POLAR SEAS AND ADVENTURES IN THE ANTARCTIC WITH SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON AND SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON. , New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (The Knickerbocker Press),1925.

1st Edition; xv, 290pp, photographic endpapers, 2 folding maps, 75 illustrations, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut, Original green cloth with gilt title on front and spine. Hurley was the photographer on the ‘Endurance’. Hurley, an absolutely superb photographer, went South with both Shackleton and Mawson. Hurley raised expedition photography to a new level. He did not make routine photos of explorers posing in the snow. Instead, he often focused on the snow itself, or on grim snowscapes that became beautiful in his compositions. These scenic studies he integrated into the documentation of the expedition. Spence 615, Renard 768, Conrad p.205. Covers worn, bumped, marked and faded, small piece missing from top of spine and top corner., very small tear on map between pages 122 and 123. A very clean, tight copy of this very scarce title. Very Good. (Book ref. 287)  £345.00

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