Ritter, Christiane. translated by Jane Degras

A Woman in the Polar Night

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards more so to dust jacket. Bookplate of fomer owner on pastedown. 223 p. w/map, illus. The adventures of an Austrian woman who followed her husband to Spitzbergen (then West Spitsbergen) for a year while he was on a scientific study, living in a hut among the hunters and miners. Uncommon in a US first printing and attractive dust jacket. Very good / good. Item #20281

Price: $90.00