Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, "to the family of Ingall", 2 volumes, 8vo (225 x 140mm.), half-titles, 5 maps, 4 folding, 10 folding panoramas, 36 photographic illustrations on 27 plates, 26 sketches on 23 plates, 6 coloured, linen-backed blue paper boards, blue endpapers, printed paper labels on the spines, vol.2 with label tipped in, a spare pair of labels loosely inserted, minor spotting and a few short tears, rear hinge in vol.2 starting, lightly rubbed with slight discoloration of boards

Presentation inscription, dated December 1938

Rosove 71.A1; Spence 277; Taurus Collection 84

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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This lot includes the U.S.A. copyright issue of the Worst Journey in the World, being abridged from Chapter 7 of the first edition. Also included is the postscript, printed for the author in 1951. "The best-written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic (continuously in print the past 78 years)” (Taurus Collection).