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CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)
The Worst Journey in the World, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1922

26 February 2020, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 48 plates (6 colour, 10 folding panoramas), 5 maps (4 folding), occasional spotting in margins and to fore-edges, untrimmed in publisher's cloth-backed blue-grey boards, paper spine labels (browned and slightly chipped at corners), [Spence 277; Taurus 84], 8vo, Constable & Co., 1922

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First edition of Cherry-Garrard's classic account of the Winter Journey as part of the Terra Nova expedition.

Provenance: "From Margery, August 17th 1924", inscription on front free endpapers.

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