Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1963, BCE.  Hard cover, 218 pages.  Blue boards with blue lettering on spine; light edge wear; binding tight with head and tail bands.  Dust jacket has some edge, corner and spine end wear, spine darkened with sunning along edges; a bit of age spotting, some rubs.  Illustrated end papers; deckled fore-edge; interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘A British trawler operating in the North Seas has picked up an SOS from Ice Station Zebra, a British meteorological station on the polar ice cap.  The message indicates that the Station has been mysteriously swept by fire and that time is running out for the handful of survivors.  American and Russian long-range bombers circle the North Pole, trying vainly to pick up the location of Zebra, but their radar is nullified by the Arctic storms.  At this point, the American nuclear submarine, The Dolphin, stationed in the Firth of Clyde, is ordered to proceed north under the Arctic ice in the hope that she may be able to break through somewhere near the last reported location of Ice Station Zebra.’ (from front wrap)