HOOPER, Lieutenant W. H. (1827-1854). Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski, with Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. London: John Murray, 1853. 8vo. Illustrated with 5 tinted lithographed plates, a folding color map, and several intertextual illustrations. [xvi], [1]-[418], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, boards decoratively paneled in blind, front board with gilt central stamp of a native, spine stamped in blind and gilt (spine quite worn, torn, endcaps chipped, boards edgeworn, toned, bumped, rear board nearly detached, hinges cracked, ink markings on ffep., some toning, foxing, thumbsoiling, several gutters cracking). Fair. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF HOOPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE H. M. S. PLOVER'S SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. Arctic Bibliography 7395. Sabin 32883.