Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
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, 220x145 mm, original linen-backed boards with paper lettering piece for Volume 2 on both volumes, spines discolored; contents clean. New York: George H. Doran Company, (1923)

Additional Details

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