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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913
APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959)
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Constable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes, 8° (225 x 145mm). Half-titles. 48 plates (6 coloured), 10 folding panoramas, and 5 maps (4 folding). (One plate lightly spotted, a few tiny tears to creasefolds of folding maps, additional cut-down frontispiece to vol. II loosely inserted in that volume.) Original linen-backed boards, printed paper labels on spines, uncut (lightly soiled and rubbed, spines creased, labels lightly browned). Provenance: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (presentation inscription to front free endpaper of vol. I dated November 1922 to his mother:) -- Evelyn Edith Cherry-Garrard, neé Sharpin (inscription noting the presentation in her hand dated November 1922 to half-title of vol. II).
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE FINEST POLAR BOOK EVER WRITTEN' (Rosove). Conrad p.173; Rosove 71.A1 ('Uncommon'); Spence 27. (2)
APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959)
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Constable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes, 8° (225 x 145mm). Half-titles. 48 plates (6 coloured), 10 folding panoramas, and 5 maps (4 folding). (One plate lightly spotted, a few tiny tears to creasefolds of folding maps, additional cut-down frontispiece to vol. II loosely inserted in that volume.) Original linen-backed boards, printed paper labels on spines, uncut (lightly soiled and rubbed, spines creased, labels lightly browned). Provenance: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (presentation inscription to front free endpaper of vol. I dated November 1922 to his mother:) -- Evelyn Edith Cherry-Garrard, neé Sharpin (inscription noting the presentation in her hand dated November 1922 to half-title of vol. II).
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE FINEST POLAR BOOK EVER WRITTEN' (Rosove). Conrad p.173; Rosove 71.A1 ('Uncommon'); Spence 27. (2)