Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1] pp., 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), spines very slightly faded and nicked, small mark to spine of volume 2, volume 1 front board sprung, free endpapers browned, half-titles spotted, a few spots elsewhere, 3 folding panoramas (facing volume 1 pp. 184 and 294 and volume 2 p. 352) sometime incorrectly folded and consequently slightly proud with concomitant nicks and rumpling along fore edges, closed tear in volume 1 pp. 247/8 just extending into text [Rosove 71.A2] Qty: (2) Note: Rosove describes this issue in blue cloth as 'significantly scarcer' than that in blue-grey paper boards with linen spines. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (ibid.).
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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1] pp., 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), spines very slightly faded and nicked, small mark to spine of volume 2, volume 1 front board sprung, free endpapers browned, half-titles spotted, a few spots elsewhere, 3 folding panoramas (facing volume 1 pp. 184 and 294 and volume 2 p. 352) sometime incorrectly folded and consequently slightly proud with concomitant nicks and rumpling along fore edges, closed tear in volume 1 pp. 247/8 just extending into text [Rosove 71.A2] Qty: (2) Note: Rosove describes this issue in blue cloth as 'significantly scarcer' than that in blue-grey paper boards with linen spines. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (ibid.).
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