Lot 19: CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY. 1886-1959. The Worst Journey in the World. Antar

CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY. 1886-1959. The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable & Co., 1922. 2 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, 60 plates (6 color and 10 folding), 5 maps (4 folding). Publisher’s cloth-backed blue-gray boards, paper spine labels (with additional set tipped-in), rubbed, boards lightly soiled. FIRST EDITION of a classic work of literature from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, recounting Cherry-Garrard’s hazardous winter journey, as part of the Terra Nova expedition. Cherry-Garrard began writing The Worst Journey in 1914, having been invalided out of the war, where he had commanded a motor squadron in Flanders, and finished it nearly eight years later. Rosove 71.A1; Spence 277; Taurus 84