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Frederick Cook signs ''My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909 / With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy''. Polar Publishing Co.: New York: 1911. He inscribes the front free endpaper, ''To Mr Frank C. Ayres with regards from Frederick A Cook / New York / Nov. 14, 1911''. Cook, a surgeon on Robert Peary's 1891-92 Arctic expedition, claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908, a year before Peary's expedition. Although many believed him at the time, his claim was not substantiated and Peary actively campaigned to discredit him (thus the subtitle of this book). Book spans 604pp. and measures 7.5'' x 10''. Bound in brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and pictorial front board. Minor edge wear to boards and slight loosening of spine. Very good plus condition.