Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
IN DUST JACKETS CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY. The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. 48 plates with 58 subjects; 3 maps; folding panorama/map of the Winter Journey. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 219x144 mm, original linen-backed boards with paper lettering pieces, slight snag in linen on both spines, 2 smudges on Volume 1 spine; top edges soiled, but contents clean; dust jackets (fragile, chipped along top and bottom edges with upper outer corner missing from Volume 1 rear panel, spine panels darkened, the second with small stain). New York, 1922 [i. e., 1923]

Additional Details

first american edition, in dust jackets, in the issue without panoramas, of the author's account of his experiences as assistant zoologist on Scott's Terra Nova expedition, an Antarctic classic; later printing, with the preface dated 1923. Books on Ice 6.12; Spence 277.