2007, ISBN: 02f9a7755bfffe92d04f3aa8e81f3733

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Wesleyan University Press: 2007. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet. One of the most path-breaking and … Plus…

Wesleyan University Press: 2007. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet. One of the most path-breaking and creatively radical poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Philip Whalen was part of the 1955 Six Gallery reading where the West Coast Beat movement famously began. Working alongside Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac, Whalen developed a conversational and visually unorthodox style that is unique in contemporary poetry. His lifelong engagement with the impermanent and sensuous, concerns deepened by his commitment to Zen Buddhism, are on rich display here, along with his warm humor and original illustrations. This Collected Poems rightfully places Whalen among the foremost poets of his time, offering readers a truly major body of American poetic work. The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Editor's Note and Acknowledgments ¥ Foreword, Highest and Driest: For Philip Zenshin's Poetic Drama/Dharma - Gary Snyder ¥ Language as Transient Act, The Poetry of Philip Whalen - Leslie Scalapino, IV ¥ VIII ¥ XVIII. Three Desert Poems: The Great American Desert ¥ Saguaro ¥ New Canaan from The Temptation of St. Anthony. The Plaster Muse : 6 Poems in the Classic Mode I. Moshe Sur l'Eau ¥ II. Ode ¥ III. Leda ¥ IV. Thursday in Byzantium ¥ V. "A l'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles . . ." ¥ VI. Sonnet for Valentine's Day Advent ¥ "A Country Without Ruins" ¥ In the Palace of the Heart ¥ Invocation to the Muse ¥ November First ¥ An Elegy Upon the Untimely Death of Mrs. W. F. ¥ The Road-Runner ¥ Three Ormolu Pieces for Stanley Moore ¥ Song ¥ Apostrophe to a Borrowed Tiger ¥ The Sealion ¥ Theory ¥ "Of Course," She Said ¥ Three Satires ¥ The Engineer ¥ The Great Instauration ¥ The Rose Festival Parade ¥ Meta ¥ "The Shock of Recognition" ¥ Two Miracles ¥ The Five Queens ¥ Homage to Lucretius ¥ A New Voyage ¥ Scholiast ¥ Out of It ¥ Tell Me More ¥ "Plus a Change . . ." ¥ Martyrdom of Two Pagans ¥ If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich? ¥ Sourdough Mountain Lookout ¥ from Three Variations, All About Love ¥ Sauced ¥ Unfinished, 3:xii:55 ¥ Denunciation, or, Unfrock'd Again ¥ Homage to Robert Creeley ¥ Invocation & Dark Sayings, in the Tibetan Style ¥ The Slop Barrel: Slices of Paideuma for All Sentient Beings ¥ Small Tantric Sermon ¥ Further Notice ¥ I Give Up ¥ The First Day of November ¥ Esprit d'Escalier Rant, Directed at Dr. P.'s class in English 106-B ¥ The Same Old Jazz ¥ Anchor Steam Beer, for Michael McClure ¥ Souffl ¥ Takeout, 15:iv:57 ¥ For C. ¥ A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring ¥ Literary Life in the Golden West ¥ Take # 4, 5:viii:57 ¥ Against the Magic War: An Open Letter to Robert Duncan ¥ Harangue from Newport, to John Wieners, 21:ix:57 ¥ 10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty ¥ Apedeath ¥ In Memory of a Statesman ¥ LETTER, to Mme. E. T. S., 2:i:58 ¥ For My Father ¥ "While the Patient Slept" ¥ Translation of a Lost Play by M. M. ¥ Senseless Commentaries on Chao-Chou ¥ Sincerity Shot ¥ Metaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix. ¥ Letter to Charles Olson ¥ Unsuccessful Spring Poem ¥ Corvallis Down the Road ¥ Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach ¥ 20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility ¥ Newport North-Window View ¥ From an Envelope Addressed to Charles Olson ¥ Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis ¥ Complaint: To the Muse ¥ Prose Take-Out, Portland 13:ix:58 ¥ Self-Portrait Sad 22:ix:58 ¥ I Think of Mountains ¥ Fond Farewell to the Chicago Review ¥ From a Letter to Ron Loewinsohn, 19:xi:58 ¥ Delights of Winter at the Shore ¥ Something Nice About Myself ¥ [The end, of a month of Sundays] ¥ Motion Day ¥ a very complicated way of saying "appearances deceive"? ¥ 4:2:59 Take 1 ¥ Self-Portrait, from Another Direction ¥ I Return to San Francisco ¥ Take, 25:iii:59 ¥ A Reply ¥ For a Picture by Mike Nathan ¥ A Distraction Fit ¥ With Compliments to E. H. ¥ [Awake a moment . . . ] ¥ I Am King Giant Dragon Sun ¥ Poem for a Blonde Lady ¥ "Everywhere I Wander" ¥ Haiku for Mike ¥ A Reflection on My Own Times ¥ Address to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in reply ¥ Boobus Hierophante, Her Incantations ¥ Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market ¥ To the Moon ¥ All About Art & Life ¥ Temporarily Insane ¥ Farewell! ¥ Since You Ask Me ¥ New York City ¥ To a Poet ¥ An Irregular Ode ¥ Haiku, for Gary Snyder ¥ Warnings, Responses, Etc. ¥ Goodbye & Hello, Again ¥ [Take dandelions first salad.] ¥ [March 3, 1960, A Beautiful Page] ¥ Palace Caf ¥ A Vision of the Bodhisattvas ¥ Itchy ¥ Dream ¥ Essex Was a Cowboy in Vermont ¥ Movie Night ¥ Historical Disquisitions ¥ Short Explanation of Everything ¥ [Requiescat] ¥ [Try doing a small thing well.] ¥ Address to a Younger Generation ¥ Dream & Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts The Death of Boston ¥ For Albert Saijo ¥ [Government] ¥ Homage to Rodin ¥ Staying or Going ¥ The Treasures of Rage ¥ Real San Francisco Sunday Afternoon ¥ San Francisco Sunday Morning Palimpsest ¥ To Ruth ¥ Duerden Says: "Life is Therapy" ¥ Philippic, Against Whitehead and a Friend ¥ Twin Peaks ¥ [under/beneath] ¥ Caption for a Picture ¥ Life and Art ¥ [Red Rover] ¥ The Daydream ¥ Ignorantaccio ¥ [Driving immediately past] ¥ [hoist great blocks of language into place] ¥ That One ¥ [I have eaten] ¥ Monday in the Evening ¥ Vector Analysis ¥ [Coca-cola chairs] ¥ [" . . . my FBI, my peace, my war"] ¥ Saturday Morning ¥ [B.C.] ¥ Early Autumn in Upper Noe Valley ¥ Easy Living ¥ The Poor ¥ The Revolutionaries ¥ One of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy Weather ¥ Friendship Greetings ¥ Statement of Condition ¥ The Idol ¥ The Chariot ¥ The Admonitions ¥ To the Muse ¥ The Prophecy ¥ [Monday early before bedtime] ¥ [Lamp] ¥ [Very Early Monday] ¥ [Tender] ¥ There It Goes ¥ Saturday 15:ix:62 ¥ A Short History of the Second Millennium B.C. ¥ Fillmore Hob Nob Carburetor ¥ The Art of Literature ¥ The Art of Literature, 2nd part ¥ The Art of Literature, #3, A Total Explanation ¥ The Art of Literature, Part 4th ¥ The Art of Literature, Concluded ¥ [Hum] ¥ [a community temple] ¥ [Albert's Antarctica] ¥ Minor Moralia ¥ Applegravy ¥ Sunday Afternoon Dinner Fung Loy Restaurant San Francisco 25:xi:62 ¥ The Saturday Visitations ¥ Song to Begin Røohatsu ¥ The Gallery, Mill Valley ¥ Heigh-Ho, Nobody's at Home ¥ Hello to All the Folks Back Home ¥ [OEconomy] ¥ The Professor Comes to Call ¥ The Coordinates ¥ [a major communication] ¥ [Worse than ever . . . ] ¥ Spring Musick ¥ How We Live the More Abundant Life in America ¥ Spring Poem to the Memory of Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) ¥ [careful & empty] ¥ [More light seems to fall] ¥ Re-Take 20:xii:63 from 7:iii:63 ¥ Letter, to Michael McClure, 11:iii:63 ¥ For Brother Antoninus ¥ Night and Morning Michaelangelo ¥ How Beautiful ¥ PW His Recantation ¥ [Someplace, Neb.] ¥ Three Mornings ¥ World Out of Control ¥ Life and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both ¥ [Expansion] ¥ [Obsessions] ¥ Plums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode ¥ [The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra] ¥ ["Chooky"] ¥ [One Page Poem] ¥ Friday Already Half- ¥ Tennis Shoes ¥ Epigram ¥ To the Muse ¥ Where Was I ¥ Oh Yes. Vancouver. ¥ Vancouver ¥ Golden Gate Park ¥ That Dream ¥ Mysteries of 1961 ¥ Breughel: "The Fall of Icarus" 20:ix:63 ¥ [My karma has to do with ears] ¥ [Octopus] ¥ Raging Desire &c. ¥ Social Graces ¥ Mystery Poem, for a birthday present ¥ The Fourth of October, 1963 ¥ Song ¥ Illness ¥ [For John Lee Hooker] ¥ [The shape of it] ¥ Somebody Else's Aesthetic ¥ Gradus ad Parnassum ¥ Inside Stuff ¥ Roxie Powell ¥ Native Speech ¥ [aches and pains] ¥ [Crown Fruit] ¥ [Treasures, left panel] ¥ [Treasures, right panel] ¥ St. Francis Lobbies Allen G. ¥ To a Nervous Man ¥ The Double Take ¥ Homage to WBY ¥ Salamander ¥ A Recall ¥ Native Speech ¥ The Walkers' Patio: Giant Plant ¥ How Was Your Trip to L.A.? ¥ Whistler's Mother ¥ Last Part of an Illustrated Children's Book in a Fever Dream ¥ Some Kind of Theory ¥ Winter Jelly ¥ Theophany ¥ [Native // Folk Speech] ¥ [Native // Folk Speech with doodles] ¥ [Epiphany] ¥ Papyrus Catalogue ¥ A Botanical Phrenzy ¥ Clean Song ¥ The Great Beyond Denver ¥ Technicalities for Jack Spicer ¥ [March 1964] ¥ Corinthian Columns ¥ Mexico ¥ Chagrin ¥ Composition ¥ The Lotus Sutra, Naturalized ¥ A Mistake ¥ Early Spring ¥ The Mystery ¥ The Problem ¥ [Hope for the best] ¥ Invocation and Theophany ¥ The Metaphysical Town Hall and Bookshop ¥ The Ode to Music ¥ [Time Poem] ¥ Absolute Realty Co.: Two Views ¥ 15:v:64 ¥ [The End of the line] ¥ [Nasturtium] ¥ Trinity Sunday 1964 ¥ Tommy's Birthday ¥ [air and earth combine] ¥ Late Afternoon ¥ Magical Incantation ¥ Goddess ¥ Buck Rogers ¥ The Chain of Lakes ¥ Dying Again ¥ To My Muse ¥ True Confessions ¥ The Best of It ¥ EAMD ¥ [Groundhog Day] ¥ The Season ¥ [Futility] ¥ [The Great American Boob, Lecture Notes] ¥ [Lecture Notes, GSS Berkeley] ¥ [Lecture NotesÑIIÑG.S.S. Berkeley] ¥ Bleakness, Farewell ¥ [skoolie-bau] ¥ Homage to William Seward Burroughs ¥ Fragment of Great Beauty & Stillness ¥ The India Print Bedspread ¥ [Dear Mr. President,] ¥ Grand Historical Ode ¥ Priapic Hymn ¥ Doukhobor Proverb ¥ "Merry Meet; Merry Part" ¥ Disgust with an Poetickal Evening at Miss Q's House ¥ Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring ¥ "A Penny for the Old Guy" ¥ Fragment of a Letter, Unsent ¥ Art & Music ¥ Mahayana ¥ My Songs Induce Prophetic Dreams ¥ April Showers Bring Rain? ¥ Love Love Love Again ¥ A Morning Walk ¥ Message Before Aram Awakes ¥ "The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child," ¥ The Second Day of May 1965 ¥ "California Is Odious but Indispensable" ¥ Imagination of the Taj Mahal ¥ T/O ¥ "The Great Heidelberg Tun" ¥ [Nasturtium shadows] ¥ Sleepy ¥ A Satire ¥ Card #21 Le Monde ¥ [Strange?] ¥ 1935 ¥ The Feather Truth Weighs 10,000 Pounds ¥ M ¥ The Life of Literature ¥ What Finally Happened to the King ¥ [Lightning of the sky] ¥ [This is my life] ¥ America! ¥ The Education Continues Along ¥ Giant Sequoias ¥ Pop Doughnut ¥ Secret ¥ That Eyes! Those Nose! ¥ The First of August ¥ The Greeks ¥ Vignette of an Ice Axe ¥ L'Enfant Prodigue ¥ The Mystery of the Alphabet ¥ Genetics ¥ Higher Criticism ¥ The Promise ¥ Good News and Gospel ¥ Paranoia Revisited ¥ The Honeymoon ¥ Palimpsest ¥ [the beginning of a long silence] ¥ The Task Rejected ¥ Homage to Dante ¥ Tara ¥ Labor Day ¥ Sad Song ¥ "Plaster of Paris: Helen of Troy." ¥ Opening the Mountain, Tamalpais: 22:x:65 ¥ Lemon Trees ¥ Trip, 30:x:65 ¥ Portland in the Evening ¥ Opening Rainy-Season Sesshin ¥ White River Ode ¥ Eikei Soji ¥ Ginkakuji Michi ¥ "The Flexible Mind" ¥ The Judgment ¥ Sanjusangendo ¥ Synesthesia ¥ Crowded ¥ A Platonic Variation ¥ A Revolution ¥ Above the Shrine ¥ Point Richmond ¥ The Trolley ¥ The War Poem for Diane di Prima ¥ Waiting for Claude ¥ Some Places ¥ Ten Titanic Etudes ¥ Champ Clair Modern Jazz Coffee ¥ Ushi Matsuri ¥ The Garden ¥ Confession and Penance ¥ The Grand Design ¥ "Sheep May Safely Graze" ¥ Success Is Failure ¥ [Another Blank Discovery!] ¥ [I keep hunting through the house] ¥ The Winter ¥ Demachi ¥ The Winter ¥ [All of it came to nothing] ¥ [All of it went on the wrong page] ¥ ["NEFAS"] ¥ Poem ¥ [Winter money gloom] ¥ George Washington ¥ [Pet Shop] ¥ [What do I know is a small yellow] ¥ The Dharma Youth League ¥ [Outside] ¥ Failing ¥ To Henrik Ibsen ¥ We Sing in Our Sleep. We Converse with the Dead in Our Dreams ¥ The Encore ¥ A Romantic & Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life & Work ¥ "Never Apologize; Never Explain" ¥ 17:III:67 ¥ Something Childish but Completely Classical ¥ Regalia in Immediate Demand ! ¥ Characteristically ¥ Grace before Meat ¥ A Wedding Journey, an Opera ¥ Ultimate Frivolous Necessities ¥ Dewey Swanson ¥ The Apparition ¥ The War ¥ October Food ¥ In the Center of Autumn ¥ A Couple Blocks South of the Heian Shrine ¥ International Date Line, Monday / Monday 27:XI:67 ¥ America inside & outside Bill Brown's House in Bolinas ¥ 25:I:68 ¥ Life in the City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon. ¥ Allegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.) ¥ At the Red Whale Bar & Restaurant, Stinson Beach ¥ The Unidentified Accomplice or, The Transmissions of C. W. Moss ¥ The Evasive Answer ¥ The Madness of Saul ¥ To the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu & Santa Barbara ¥ To All My Friends ¥ Larry Kearny at Stinson Beach ¥ Duerden's Garage, Stinson Beach ¥ Birthday Poem, ¥ Bill Brown ¥ Scenes of Life at the Capital ¥ Walking beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudø o and Gary's Poem ¥ May First Revolution Day ¥ To Edward Dahlberg ¥ Science and Language ¥ For Kenneth Rexroth ¥ Four Other Places, Wesleyan University Press: 2007, Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 19th - 21st June, 1939. Printed wrappers, small 4to, ,. pp,LXXXIX-XCII, 20 plates (nos 15-34) ills. Lots 517-1178 From the preface: "The Second Portion of the sale comprises the Engravings catalogued by Mr. Schwerdt as such, and covers his "Hunting, Hawking And Shooting Vol, III. pp. 1-193, and Vol. IV, pp. 135-181. Many other engravings, partìcularly sets with wrappers or title-pages (such as The Beaufort Hunt), were treated by the owner as Books and described in Vols. I and II of his Catalogue. .. Mr. Schwerdt set no limits of date or country to his collection, which includes the earliest examples of the Sporting Print such as Jean Duvet's Unicom Set, and prints by Hans Baldung, Cranach, Durer, Hirschvogel, Rembrandt and Ridinger, as well as those of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in an encyclopaedic range. He set himself to obtain each item in the fìnest possible state and condition : the rare absence of a notable print from his collection is almost invariably due to his inability to procure a copy of it in a state he considered worthy of his collection. .. In this collection will be found many rare Hunting sets in fine condition, among the most desirable being Alken's Quorn and his other rare early sets, Rowlandson's Hunting, coloured and signed by the artist, the Morland large mezzotint set, the Sutherland-Cooper-Alken set of 1818, the long "Burkitt & Hudson" set, the Hullmandel-Alken The Right Sort, the Bentley-Alken Fox-Hunting series, and R. B. Davis' Hunters' Annual. The Hawking Prints include magnificent examples in colours of the S. W. Reynolds-Northcote Falconer (said to be of Northcote's brother, but claimed by an inscription on the original canvas to be Northcote himself) ; and Mr. Fleming of Barochan of which Mr. Schwerdt had failed to find a fine enough copy until after his main catalogue was printed.here are many series of Shooting prints, including Howitt's rare set of six, the oblong Sutherland-Alken set of 1820 and several fine sets by Reeve, Pollard and others. Spine torn at head and tail and slightly browned, otherwise Good., Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 19th - 21st June, 1939, 1939, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 196 p. William Black (1841-1898) was, in his day, immensely popular and his work was compared favourably with that of Anthony Trollope; sadly, his fame has not lasted into the 21st century and he has now been largely forgotten. Originally writing as a journalist, he achieved fame with the publication of his fifth novel, "A Daughter of Heth", upon which he left journalism and wrote novels full-time, eventually publishing more than 35 (per listing in the CBEL). A later novel, "A Princess of Thule", was later adapted into a musical play, "The Maid of Arran", by a young L. Frank Baum. This novel, as with many of its day, has to do with young love, the entanglements and final, happy resolution. ***DESCRIPTION: Green cloth binding, gilt lettering and short, narrow rule on the front board, gilt lettering and decorative rules to the spine, publisher's device blind-embossed on the back board, brown coated endpapers, vintage inscription in a flowing hand on the first fly "Received today with the compliments of the Publishers [name], New York, Oct. 2d, 1875". Initial pages include publisher's ad for Wilkie Collins's and George Eliot's Novels, two illustrations guarded by tissue, title page with a vignette of a man walking by water with a setting sun, verso of title page has publisher's ad for William Black's Novels, the text which contains many black and white illustrations, most full-page, followed by an 8-page "Complete List of Novels" published by Harper & Brothers. Pagination: (i-ii), (1)-186, (1)-8 for the Publisher's Catalogue. ***CONDITION: Overall very good plus, with a strong, square text block, straight corners with a minimum of rubbing, solid hinges, near-perfect endpapers, and the interior is clean and bright; the interior of the book could be called fine. We are grading as very good plus overall due to some general rubbing to the binding and some wear to the head and tail of the spine. ***CITATION: CBEL III, pg. 538 cites the British edition, 3 volumes published in 1875; this volume appears to be the first American edition, per the notation referred to above. ***POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please contact seller for details. ***Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help., Harper & Brothers, 1875<

2010, ISBN: 02f9a7755bfffe92d04f3aa8e81f3733

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Author: Phillip Law Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - A… Plus…

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Author: Phillip Law Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1954. Item is in Original Condition, with Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads! Notes & Condition: With a chart tracking the course of the specially designed Australian ice-breaker ship called Kista Dan, and four remarkable photographic views, Phillip Law describes his difficult but successful mission - having establishing a completely functional station for future scientific work in the region of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. Resolute in his endeavour, Law and his modest team of twenty-four, battled fierce windstorms and deadly moving ice in 1953-1954, to erect "Mawson Station" which he named after Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. Established in 1954 in Holme Bay, Mac Robertson Land, Mawson is Australia's oldest Antarctic station and the oldest continuously inhabited Antarctic station south of the Antarctic Circle. On 13 February 1954 the party led by Law raised the Australian flag on the rocky shore of Horseshoe Harbour. In the first year a 10 Australians spent winter in cramped but adequate accommodation under the leadership of Robert Dovers. By the end of the year, they had erected the living quarters, a works hut, a carpenter's shop, an engine shed, two store houses. 8vo. 12 pages including sketch maps, plus photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Excerpt from the text: "The Kista Dan, under the command of Captain H. C. Petersen, arrived at Melbourne on 11 December 1953... the ship loaded stores and supplies for both Heard Island and Antarctica..." "Three 'weasels' were taken... two living caravans to be towed behind the weasels which were fitted with insulated cabins. Five huts were landed... to provide sleeping, messing and cooking quarters, and one specially designed... to serve as radio, meteorological, survey and medical accommodation, and an engine house and two storehouses..." "Proceeding to the French Station at Port aux Français, Iles de Kerguelen, the Kista Dan took on 50 tons of gas-oil, 36 tons of water, petrol for weasels and aircraft, and diesel fuel for the Antarctic station..." "Early on Saturday, February 6, the wind rose and prevented any action... 60 knots and snowing... storm continued all day, causing great ice movements to port and astern of the ship... Kista Dan was immovably wedged." "The time until our departure, February 23, was employed on a variety of tasks. Three huts were completed... seals were killed and skinned for winter dog-food; gravity and magnetic observations, also an astronomical determination of position, were made at Mawson; geological and botanical specimens were collected; and philatelic mail, comprising 23,000 letters, were stamped." "Several emperor penguin skeletons were found at Mawson but no live emperor... There were no penguin rookeries at Mawson... but there was an Adélie penguin rookery on the island where Dover camped... where the Kista Dan first began to break into the fast-ice... a long line of thousands of Adélie penguins stretched... many of the chicks were dying from starvation..." "Mawson provided an ideal site for station..." End Excerpt. Today, Mawson Station houses approximately 20 personnel over winter and up to 60 in summer. It is the only Antarctic station to use wind generators for over 70% of its power needs, saving over 600,000 litres of diesel fuel per year. Some of the small pre-fabricated huts used in the first years remain on the station, but these are overshadowed by large steel-framed modular buildings dating from a major rebuilding program which started in the late 1970s. As intended by Law, it now serves as a base for scientific research programs, including an underground cosmic ray detector, various long-term meteorological, aeronomy and geomagnetic studies, as well as ongoing conservation biology studies, in particular of nearby Auster rookery, a breeding ground for emperor penguins and Adélie penguins. Phillip Garth Law AC, CBE, FAA (1912-2010) was an Australian scientist and explorer who served as director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from 1949 to 1966. He spent the first of many summers in Antarctica in 1947-48 as a senior research officer on ANARE, soon becoming director. He established bases in Mawson, Davis and Casey, and led expeditions that explored more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) of coastline and some 1,000,000 square kilometres (390,000 sq mi) of territory. From 1966 to 1980 he chaired the Australian National Committee on Antarctic Research. He published many works on his exploration. Law's wife Nel became the first Australian woman in Antarctica when she visited Mawson in 1961. Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains. It was named by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) (1929-1931), under Sir Douglas Mawson, after Sir Macpherson Robertson of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition. Sir Macpherson Robertson had financed the joint British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931, which was led by the famous explorer Douglas Mawson. Mac. Robertson Land was named in his honour, and in 1932 Robertson received his knighthood for his philanthropic works, specific mention being given for his support of this expedition. . Very Good., Royal Geographical Society, 1954, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 196 p. William Black (1841-1898) was, in his day, immensely popular and his work was compared favourably with that of Anthony Trollope; sadly, his fame has not lasted into the 21st century and he has now been largely forgotten. Originally writing as a journalist, he achieved fame with the publication of his fifth novel, "A Daughter of Heth", upon which he left journalism and wrote novels full-time, eventually publishing more than 35 (per listing in the CBEL). A later novel, "A Princess of Thule", was later adapted into a musical play, "The Maid of Arran", by a young L. Frank Baum. This novel, as with many of its day, has to do with young love, the entanglements and final, happy resolution. ***DESCRIPTION: Green cloth binding, gilt lettering and short, narrow rule on the front board, gilt lettering and decorative rules to the spine, publisher's device blind-embossed on the back board, brown coated endpapers, vintage inscription in a flowing hand on the first fly "Received today with the compliments of the Publishers [name], New York, Oct. 2d, 1875". Initial pages include publisher's ad for Wilkie Collins's and George Eliot's Novels, two illustrations guarded by tissue, title page with a vignette of a man walking by water with a setting sun, verso of title page has publisher's ad for William Black's Novels, the text which contains many black and white illustrations, most full-page, followed by an 8-page "Complete List of Novels" published by Harper & Brothers. Pagination: (i-ii), (1)-186, (1)-8 for the Publisher's Catalogue. ***CONDITION: Overall very good plus, with a strong, square text block, straight corners with a minimum of rubbing, solid hinges, near-perfect endpapers, and the interior is clean and bright; the interior of the book could be called fine. We are grading as very good plus overall due to some general rubbing to the binding and some wear to the head and tail of the spine. ***CITATION: CBEL III, pg. 538 cites the British edition, 3 volumes published in 1875; this volume appears to be the first American edition, per the notation referred to above. ***POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please contact seller for details. ***Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help., Harper & Brothers, 1875<