New York: Norton, 1998. First edition - Historical novel set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Illustrated on the title page and at the beginning of each chapter. 386 pp.

New York: Norton, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on title page. Illustrated on the title page and at the beginning of each chapter. 399 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-393-04632x.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing (1992). First edition - The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp. ISBN: 1551050269.

New York: Harper & Row, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the Lapps as they struggle to preserve their timeless, traditional way of life in the face of the Norwegian government's attempts to "settle them." Translated from the French by Douglas Garman. 335 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Latvian born author, set at a research camp in the Arctic. "In the forbidding climate of the Arctic Circle, metal cracks like glass, rubber shatters, plastic crumbles, and world famous scientists are dying horrific deaths -- and no on knows why." 402 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-670-034371.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely book which makes very vivid in both words and in the soft oil paintings of Kiuchi, the changing seasons of the year in the Alaskan landscape, and how they affect one little Inuit girl who remembers the berries of summer even in the midst of the howling winter winds. SIGNED on the half title page by the illustrator Kiuchi with a drawing (self-portrait.) Oblong format, bound in glossy illustrated boards. ISBN: 0-15-271233x.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the far reaches of Alaska's Arctic shore, and in the frozen oil-rich tar sands of Athabasca - the only place in the world where oil can be mined on the surface. Introduction by MacLean. Map endpapers.

New York: Viking, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in this unusual series set in the Canadian Arctic and featuring teacher Edie Kiglatukand her friend Sergeant Derek Palliser. Includes author's note "Fact or Fiction" about black ops nuclear testing. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-0670785803.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.

Oxford: William Heinemann, (1989, c 1967). A slightly abridged version of Equiano's account of his life orignially published in 1789 - captured by slave traders at the age of 10, taken to the United States, sold to a planter in the West Indies, and worked on ships, including slavers, until he was able to save enough to purchase his freedom. Edited and with an introduction by Edwards. A title in the African Writers Series. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, xix, 198 pp. ISBN: 0-435900102.

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: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel which grew out of journals which she kept during two summers spent in Alaska. Set on the Northwest coast, this is the story of the growing friendship between two women who are thrown together in an Arctic field camp. 217 pp. ISBN: 1556111738.

New York: Atheneum, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story set aboard a whaling ship in 1871, and based on the experiences of two real children who traveled with their families at sea - the still existing journal of Laura Jernegan as well as on the experiences of Mary Williams, another child who sailed aboard a whaling ship with her family. Told through the daily journal entries of nine-year-old Laura, who sails from Japan to Arctic whaling grounds with her parents and younger brother and ends each entry with the words "Good-bye for today". Illustrated with many small drawings in the journal entries and four double page paintings in colored pencil and oil wash by Thomas B. Allen. Glossary. Author's note. 42 pp. ISBN: 0-689822227.

New York: Reilly & Lee, (c 1922). Hardcover The second book in this series, featuring Curlie Carson, a young but very skilled wireless radio operator, set in the far Northwest, near the Arctic. 223 pp.

New York: Reilly & Lee, (c 1924). Hardcover The fourth book in this series, featuring Curlie Carson, a young but very skilled wireless radio operator. He has been asked to participate in a secret mission on a strange craft which moves underwater but along the bottom of the sau, unlike a submarine. 264 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the Williams' family from the 1850s to 1870s told first-hand from manuscripts handed down to Harold Williams, the grandson of Captain Thomas Williams and his wife, Eliza, and the son of their son, William. Eliza Williams accompanied her husband on a whaling voyage 1858-1861, had two children born at sea, and kept a diary. The second part recounts the destruction of the whaling fleet in the arctic in 1871 and the final part describes the voyage of the Florence from 1873-1874, from manuscripts by Eliza's son. Illustrated with photographs. Includes appendices. Map endpapers. xii, 401 pp

New York: Viking, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this Canadian writer (and father of singer Neil Young.) Introduces Mountie Matthew "Matteesie" Kitologitak, a full-blooded Inuk. ISBN: 0-670828890.

New York: Viking, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery by this Canadian writer (and father of singer Neil Young) featuring Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector Matthew "Matteesie" Kitologitak, a full-blooded Inuk who is investigating a brutal double murder in a tiny Arctic village. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-670835552.