The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure

The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | "The Worst Journey in the World," in the rare library binding

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922


2 vols., 8vo (224 x 138 mm). Colored frontispieces, 4 colored plates, 43 uncolored, 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps, of which 4 folding; very occasional light spotting. Original library cloth binding; spines lightly sunned, foxing to fore edges, free endpapers toned.


A fine copy in the variant blue cloth "library" binding, which Roscoe says is "significantly scarcer" than the usual linen-backed boards (for "Polar'" binding, see lot 50).


“The best-written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic (continuously in print the past 78 years)” (Taurus Collection).


REFERENCES:

Howego, IV, S14; Renark 305; Rosove 71.A2; Taurus 84


PROVENANCE:

R.R. Cooper, ownership inscription

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