From the Library of Raymond E. Priestley – Geologist on the British Antarctic Expedition – 1907-09

Shackleton (Ernest H.) The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations, some colour, 3 folding maps and folding panorama in pocket at end of vol.2, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, rebacked with original spine laid-down, large 8vo, 1909 (2)

***This copy has a presentation inscription on the front endpaper ‘Ursula Lena on her 21^st birthday November 1940 With good from Raymond, Phyllis, Jocelyn & Margaret Priestley’. The name of Sam L. Priestley Nov. 1909 has been crossed through but appears in vol. 2 on the front endpaper. This copy has to vol, 1 pasted to the rear paste-down an original photograph of ‘The cubicle occupied by Priestley and Murray’, and to vol. 2, an original portrait of Priestly pasted to the front paste-down. There are further contemporary newspaper and cutting and magazine cuttings pasted in both volumes.