Description
The first edition of Exploring About the North Pole of the Winds, signed by the author, William Herbert Hobbs.
Octavo, viii, 376pp, [2]. The first printing, with “Published, Winter, 1930” on the copyright page. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 23 photographic plates. Illustrated endpapers with maps of Greenland. From the library of Lt. Commander Leonard Seltzer Wilson, the head of mapping for the OSS during World War II. Includes the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $5.00 on the front flap, notable wear to hinges, chipping along edges, archival tissue reinforcement to verso.
This copy is signed on the second free endpaper by the author: “Mr. Leonard Wilson / with compliments / Wm. H. Hobbs / Ann Arbor / Oct. 6, 1930.”
Exploring About the North Pole of the Winds (1930) by William Herbert Hobbs is an account of Hobbs’s four scientific expeditions to Greenland between 1926 and 1930. The work details his studies of Arctic meteorology, particularly the movement of air currents from the polar regions, which he believed influenced global weather patterns.
