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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° (224 x 145mm). Half-titles, 48 plates, 6 coloured, 10 folding panoramas, and 5 maps, 4 folding. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, replacement labels tipped in at front of each volume, dust-jacket to vol.II (light soiling to vol.I and dust-jacket to vol.II , 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). First edition, with one of the two very rare dust-jackets. Conrad p.173; Spence 277; Taurus 84.
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A.G.B.CHERRY-GARRARD. Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World. [No place]: printed for the author, 1951. 8° (236 x 152mm). 30pp. (numbered [577-579] 580-605 [606]). Folded, unbound (some light soiling to first and last page). Provenance: William Launcelot Scott Fleming (1906-1990, Bishop of Portsmouth, presentation inscription from the author). Rare; together with one other (A.G.B.CHERRY-GARRARD. The Worst Journey in the World... one volume edition. London, 1937, 8°, cloth).
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The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R. Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes, 8° (224 x 145mm). Half-titles, 48 plates, 6 coloured, 10 folding panoramas, and 5 maps, 4 folding. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines, replacement labels tipped in at front of each volume, dust-jacket to vol.II (light soiling to vol.I and dust-jacket to vol.II , 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). First edition, with one of the two very rare dust-jackets. Conrad p.173; Spence 277; Taurus 84.
[With:]
A.G.B.CHERRY-GARRARD. Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World. [No place]: printed for the author, 1951. 8° (236 x 152mm). 30pp. (numbered [577-579] 580-605 [606]). Folded, unbound (some light soiling to first and last page). Provenance: William Launcelot Scott Fleming (1906-1990, Bishop of Portsmouth, presentation inscription from the author). Rare; together with one other (A.G.B.CHERRY-GARRARD. The Worst Journey in the World... one volume edition. London, 1937, 8°, cloth).
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