Cherry-Garrard (Apsley)
The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic, London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. 2 volumes, 8vo, recent blue paper boards retaining original linen spines, half-titles, binder's blank to rear of volume 2, all plates and maps as called for (including the 10 folding panoramas), volume 1 with tipped-in slip annotated 'Inscribed by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, by request, October 14 1938' possibly in the author's hand, both volumes with fraying to spine-ends, endpapers renewed (with duplicate spine-labels tipped in), spotting to half-titles, volume 1 spine-label stained and abraded, with damp-staining to top margins of plates towards rear, folding panorama at p. 184 partly split along central fold, folding map at p. 194 spotted along fold, folding map at p. 294 with closed tear to one fold and nicks and damp-staining to fore edge, volume 2 with damp-staining to gutter of a few plates, closed tear to stub of folding map facing p. 542.

Rosove 71.A1.

First edition. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written ... a monument immortalizing the [Terra Nova] expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (Rosove).