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APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959)
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913, London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes, 8° (223 x 145mm.). Half-titles, 48 plates, 6 coloured, 10 folding panoramas and 5 maps, 4 folding. (Outer blank margin of folding panorama number IX discoloured and with small tears.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, uncut (replacement labels removed, some discolouration to spines and spine labels as usual, small blank section of label to vol.I chipped away, light soiling or browning to covers). Provenance: M.B. McKinlay (Otago, New Zealand,
inscriptions).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written' (Rosove). Conrad p.173; Rosove 71.A1 ('Uncommon.'); Spence 27
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913, London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes, 8° (223 x 145mm.). Half-titles, 48 plates, 6 coloured, 10 folding panoramas and 5 maps, 4 folding. (Outer blank margin of folding panorama number IX discoloured and with small tears.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, uncut (replacement labels removed, some discolouration to spines and spine labels as usual, small blank section of label to vol.I chipped away, light soiling or browning to covers). Provenance: M.B. McKinlay (Otago, New Zealand,
inscriptions).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written' (Rosove). Conrad p.173; Rosove 71.A1 ('Uncommon.'); Spence 27
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