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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)] BIBLE, in English. - The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford and London: Printed at the Oxford Univeristy Press for Henry Frowde and the O.U.P., [no date but circa 1908]. 8° (19.9 x 13.7cm.). Extra-illustrated with various related photographs and other ephemeral items, most loosely inserted. Original limp brown morocco, lettered in gilt on spine, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (inscription 'Ernest H. Shackleton/September 1908/Psalm 121. M.F.S[winford].'), and thence by descent. An important association copy but with a puzzling inscription: the year is probably incorrect as in September 1908 Shackleton was at Cape Royds preparing for the southern journey. 1907 seems a more likely date, making the Bible a gift to Shackleton from an inlaw shortly before the departure of the British Antarctic Expedition. Two items are pasted into the Bible: a photograph of Emily Shackleton and another sitter, possibly M.F. Swinford, and a 5-line pencilled note. Also included, but loosely inserted, are a small lock of hair in a fold of paper titled in ink 'Raymond's hair/16 th . July 1906' (Raymond Shackleton was born on 2 Feb. 1905), a photograph of a child playing (Raymond Shackleton?), a 2pp. manuscript copy of a poem titled 'The Organ' dated 'November 23 rd 1919', and a photograph of the floral tributes placed on Shackleton's grave in South Georgia in 1922.