Description
The first edition, first printing of Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [viii], 282pp, [2]. Blue cloth, quarter turquoise band, title stamped in silver on spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page, with “36352” publisher’s code on rear panel. Illustrated endpapers. Light rubbing to tips of the spine, solid binding. Complete with 20 illustrations throughout text. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $5.00 on front flap, small hole along rear hinge, sunning to the spine, faint band along top quarter from an old dust jacket cover, a very good example.
(Rosove 195, A1)
A scarce work, with no verified copies of the first printing appearing at auction in the last 25 years.
The first edition of Endurance by Alfred Lansing was published by McGraw-Hill Book Company of New York in 1959. It is often confused with the Book Club edition, released the same year. The first edition from McGraw-Hill states “First Edition” on the copyright, has a retail price of $5.00 on the front flap, with “Book-of-The-Month Club Selection” printed below the retail price. Publisher’s code of “36352” along the bottom edge of the rear flap. The second state dust jacket has a retail price of $6.95, with nine advertising blurbs on the rear panel. The “Book of the Month Club” has “First Edition” stated on the copyright page, but has a dimple on the back panel in place of the “36352” publisher’s code. The cloth of the first printing was issued in both full dark blue and with a turquoise band on both panels.
