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  Scarce Limited First Edition of Gontran de Poncins' Kabloona; signed by him

  DE PONCINS, Gontran. In collaboration with Lewis Galantiere. Illustrated by the author.

  Kabloona.

  New York: Reynal, Hitchcock, Inc, 1941.

  First limited edition of French adventurer Gontran de Poncins' classic account of his solo unsupported journey in the Canadian Arctic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. One on only 550 copies, this is number 81. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Before I disappear for good!...I remain your friend, 'Eskimo Miki', de Poncins." With the original Publisher's Note laid in which explains, "The Vicomte Gontran de Poncins, author of KABLOONA, called out of the Arctic to join the colors of his country, disappeared in the debacle of the French Republic following the fall of Paris. It has therefore been impossible to obtain his signature for this limited edition." Poncins did in fact survive, and this is one of the scarce copies that he signed.

  Price: $2,800.00     Item Number: 95094

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