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London: Gollancz, 1931. First UK edition. 351pp. Contents generally clean, but some pages with patches of soiling or minor foxing. New rear endpapers. Some soiling to closed edges of textblock. Firm, in the original black cloth, spine titled in gilt, quite bright, worn ends restored.

Price: £90.00

Swindon: NERC / Natural Environment Research Council, 1991. First edition. 67pp, illustrated in colour and printed on art paper. Giant landscape format 43 x 60 cms. The Presentation Edition is bound in laminated boards, and comes in a clamshell case which bears the same illustration as the book. New copy, contents clean and unmarked but for a small production fault which has left a grey smudge to the lower corners of odd pages 1-9. New and unused copy. The first computer high resolution model of the circulation around the Antarctic. The project was called Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (hence FRAM). The name also recalled Amundsen using Nansen's old ice-strengthened ship [Fram, meaning 'Forward'] for his expedition to the South pole. New.
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Price: £35.00