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Cherry-Garrard, 1922
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Classic account of the Terra Nova expedition
Cherry-Garrard, 1922
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley (1886-1959). The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922.
The first edition, with one of the very rare dust jackets, of Cherry-Garrard’s classic account of the tragic Terra Nova expedition. The name for the book came from Cherry-Garrard’s comment about the winter journey to Cape Crozier to collect emperor penguin eggs, and was later adopted to refer to the entire expedition. The book contains the only detailed account of the arduous journey to the Pole apart from Scott's own diaries. Spence 277; Taurus 84
Two volumes, octavo (224 x 145mm). Half-titles; 48 plates, 6 of which colored; 10 folding panoramas; 5 maps, 4 of which folding (occasional light marginal spotting; some tears at creases of folding plates). Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, replacement labels tipped in at front of each volume; volume II with original dust jacket (light soiling to dust-jacket, small tears and creases to paper label on vol. I, replacement label to vol. I detached, dust jacket to vol. I supplied in facsimile). Provenance: Mrs. Maconochie (presentation inscription dated Christmas 1922) – Marcus Zust (his sale, Christie’s, 9 May 2002, lot 216).
Cherry-Garrard, 1922
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley (1886-1959). The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922.
The first edition, with one of the very rare dust jackets, of Cherry-Garrard’s classic account of the tragic Terra Nova expedition. The name for the book came from Cherry-Garrard’s comment about the winter journey to Cape Crozier to collect emperor penguin eggs, and was later adopted to refer to the entire expedition. The book contains the only detailed account of the arduous journey to the Pole apart from Scott's own diaries. Spence 277; Taurus 84
Two volumes, octavo (224 x 145mm). Half-titles; 48 plates, 6 of which colored; 10 folding panoramas; 5 maps, 4 of which folding (occasional light marginal spotting; some tears at creases of folding plates). Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, replacement labels tipped in at front of each volume; volume II with original dust jacket (light soiling to dust-jacket, small tears and creases to paper label on vol. I, replacement label to vol. I detached, dust jacket to vol. I supplied in facsimile). Provenance: Mrs. Maconochie (presentation inscription dated Christmas 1922) – Marcus Zust (his sale, Christie’s, 9 May 2002, lot 216).
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