Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest.

First edition of Wild's personal account of the final episode in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, gilt decorated vignette of the Quest to the front panel, pictorial endpapers by Garth Jones, illustrated with a colored frontispiece, numerous maps and over 100 illustrations from photographs. In very good condition, bookplate to the verso of the front free endpaper.