ANTARCTICA

First edition, first printing. Hardcover issue. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine and panel edges. Not price-clipped (£6.60 net to the front flap).

A poem about Lawrence "Titus" Oates, one of the Antarctic explorers in the Terra Nova Expedition to South Pole. The first edition was published in simultaneous paperback and hardcover editions, on 27 November 1985.