NMLP P-040129 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton · William Heinemann (London) · 1919
The first impression was printed on inferior paper at the end of the Great War and is invariably browned, the silver blocking oxidises, and the joints are prone to splitting with normal use, so a bright, unbrowned, unsplit copy should raise the suspicion of a later impression rather than confirm a first
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040129 for "South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition" by Sir Ernest Shackleton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040129, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).