Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
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, original linen-backed boards with paper lettering pieces, first spine darkened, second spine missing most of the lettering piece; owner's inscription on Volume 2 pastedown, contents otherwise clean. New York, 1922 [i. e., 1923]

Additional Details

first american edition, 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.