Fiddletown, CA: Gaby Press, (2009). SIGNED first edition - "This is a novel about culture shock, love, loss, identify, belonging, the Inuit people, and the birth of the Nunavut Territory in Arctic Canada." Although it is a work of fiction, it draws on research and years of living in the area. INSCRBED by the author on the half title page. Glossary. 239 pp. ISBN: 978-0981931951.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - Canadian author's first novel, a modern classic which vividly portrays the beginning of the destruction of the traditional way of life of the Eskimos as they come into contact with white men. Based on stories passd down from elders about the rescue (and the ensuing events) of three whalers from New Bedford in 1896 which Houston heard during the years he spent on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Illustrated with drawings by the author. 275 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-15-1961158.

Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Press, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the American naval officer, aviator and polar explorer Richard Byrd which focuses on his life of constant adventure, starting at a young age, and his bravery in trying to survive at the Advance Base during his second expedition. A title in the Great Lives for Young Americans Series. Map. Illustrated with drawings by Robert Boehmer. 190 pp.

Carmel, IN: Cork Hill Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning 200 years, from just before the arrival of the Russians in Alaska to the late 20th century, one which tells the story of "a native people struggling to meet the challenge of invaders to their homeland and their struggle to maintain their cultural identity.. . Topu, the village where the story takes place, is a fictional place based on many of the characteristics of native villages in the area.. . The story is based on interviews with elders and listening to their native history as told through dance and stories." 130 pp. ISBN: 1-59408517X.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a three month long odyssey in 1988 by a Canadian-Soviet team of adventurers, with the goal of linking polar regions in the west and east - starting in Siberia and ending on Canada's Ellesmere Island. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by author, Laurie Dexter - "to - best wishes for good health and many safe adventures" and dated in 1997. Illustrated with full color photographs. Map, nine appendices. 213 pp. ISBN: 1-550131990.

Shrewsbury, UK: Swan Hill Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition - A combination of a history of polar exploration and an account of the author's own attempt to reach the North Pole. Illustrated with full-color photographs. Select bibliography, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 1-853102113.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED by Kantner on the half-title page. "His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from family histories to hunting stories, celebrations of people and places to a lament over a majestic wilderness rapidly disappearing." Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Maps, glossary. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1571313010.

New York: Norton, (1999) dj. Hardcover - An attractive new edition of this classic account of Shackleton's 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition by the commander of the ship, Endurance, and originally published in 1931. Includes a new preface by Patrick O'Brian. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxvi, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-393046842.

Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society Publishers, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the history of exploration of Antarctica, "beginning with the imaginative ideas of early Greek geographers, tells of the first South Seas voyages, the rugged adventures of the sealers and whalers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the first major American expedition" and including the expeditions of James Wedell, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Bibliography, Index. 279 pp.

Toronto & Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985. Hardcover first edition - Charming Inuit folktale illustrated with scenes from shadow puppets. Includes a page on how to create your own shadow puppet theater and 2 pages of templates. Oblong format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5404920.

Mankato, MN: Creative Editions, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A retelling of an Inuit creation myth which recounts how the wolf and the caribou came to be brothers. Retold by Jessell and illustrated with his full-color, full-page and double-page paintings. Oblong format. 30 pp. ISBN: 1568460929.

Edmonton, Canada: Hurtig Publishers, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A year's diary entries (actually an amalgam of the many years she lived in Igloolik and Repulse Bay), written by an American-born Canadian living a semi-reclusive life in the Northwest Territories, and which reflect a vanishing Arctic way of life. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 192 pp. Endpaper maps. Includes a mimeographed insert which lists pseudonyms for people mentioned in the book. ISBN: 0-88830-2258.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1988, at the age of 50, Thayer became the first woman to ski solo to the North Pole, her only companion a black husky named Charlie. Illustrated with a map and full-color photographs. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671793861.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The true of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer until she could be airlifted out several months later. In addition, though, this is a book about the wonders of Antarctica and of the difficulties encountered by the scientists and researchers there. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title by Nielsen. Map, photographs. xvi, 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - Canadian author's first novel, a modern classic which vividly portrays the beginning of the destruction of the traditional way of life of the Eskimos as they come into contact with white men. Based on stories passd down from elders about the rescue (and the ensuing events) of three whalers from New Bedford in 1896 which Houston heard during the years he spent on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Illustrated with drawings by the author. 275 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-15-1961158.

New York: Walker, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - At age 18, Pyrde, an orphan, ex-merchant seaman, disgruntled factory worker, anwered an ad for a fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, and emigrated to Canada, where he spent the next 12 years living in some of the most remote regions of the North. Illustrated with 8 pages of color photographs. Map endpapers. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-0369-0.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Neilsen was the physician at the Admundsen-Scott South Pole Station when she discovered a lump in her breast after the ice had set in, isolating the station from any help. This is her account of how she treated herself, of the support of the other members, and finally was air-lifted out in a dangerous rescue flight. Illustrated with photograhs. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

New York: Macmillan, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story for older children by this Danish born author - she attempts to show life in a typical village, as she tells the story of Jako, who is a successful hunter, but who wants to be an artist, his portray the beauty he sees in the cold stark land of Greenland. Illustrated with drawings by Raymond Creekmore. 148 pp. ISBN: B000URNBOA.

Davis, CA: Pacific Portals, 1974. First edition - An account of a seven year program in Antarctic biology, working with penguins, seals and fish at McMurdoo Station in Antarctica. Illustrated with photographs. 164 pages.

Racine, WI: Whitman, 1963. Hardcover - Illustrated by Arnie Kohn. Includes the Greely Expedition to Franklin Bay, Robert Peary and much more.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Bainbridge's twelth novel, and considered by some to be her best. A brilliantly fictionalized account of Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition in 1912.