(1874-1922),The heart of the Antarctic, (London: William Heinemann, 1909), first ed., 2 vols. Thick quarto. Vol.I, 373 pp, complete, with sepia coloured frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 125 black and white photo Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), the heart of the Antarctic, being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909, (London: William Heinemann, 1909), first edition, 2 vols. Thick quarto. Volume I, 373 pp, complete, with sepia coloured frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 125 black and white photos and 11 diagrams. Volume II, 419 pp, complete with sepia coloured frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 132 black and white photos, 38 other illustrations, with folding panorama and three folding maps in endpocket. Ex library.