Lot 259
  • 259

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
  • The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company, [1922]
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo, (vol.1) lxiv, 300, [301-4]pp.; (vol.2) viii, 301-586pp., 5 maps, 4 folding, 10 folding panoramas, 36 photo illustrations on 27 plates, 26 sketches on 23 plates, 6 coloured, linen-backed blue paper boards and endpapers, printed paper labels on the spines, a spare pair of labels tipped in, blue morocco-backed cloth clamshell box

Literature

Rosove 71.A1; Spence 277; Taurus Collection 84

Condition

A fine copy
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Catalogue Note

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