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POLAR

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2.000 £ - 3.000 £
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4.437 £
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 86•

POLAR

Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 2.536 $ - 3.805 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.437 £
ca. 5.628 $
Beschreibung:

POLAR CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY) The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, with a loosely inserted AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, half-titles, 48 plates (6 colour, 10 folding panoramas), 5 maps (4 folding), a few short nicks and light foxing to edges of folding plates, publisher's cloth-backed blue-grey boards, paper spine labels, spines frayed [Spence 277; Taurus 84], Constable & Co., 1922; 'Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World', separate printing of the Postscript included in the 1951 edition, on 2 large folded unopened sheets, with integral title-page, creased at edges, Printed for the Author, 1951; 'Foreword', separate printing (possibly proof) of the Foreword written by George Seaver for inclusion in the 1965 edition, with a loosely inserted letter to Jean Savill from Angela Cherry-Garrard ("This little memoir about Cherry comes with my best wishes for Christmas and the New Year"), cloth-backed boards with leather label lettered in gilt "A.C-G. 1886-1959", [1965], 8vo (4) Fußnoten First edition of Cherry-Garrard's classic account of the Winter Journey as part of the Terra Nova expedition, and a small group of association items including an autograph letter to Norman Savill (of Savills estate agents) dated 2 May 1949, beginning "I have kept this book too long. I am interested because I am interested in Curzon who came out of it as a most awful blackguard which I am inclined to think he was"; it was Curzon who led the inquiry as president of the RGS, and of whom Cherry-Garrard wrote "The Committee (Curzon) meant to hush up everything. I was to be sacrificed" (Annotated Diary, volume 4, 12 October 1912 to 9 March 1913, SPRI MS 554/19/4). Provenance: S.G. Loveday, 1922, ownership signatures on front free endpapers of first work; Norman and Jean Savill, letters and pamphlets from Apsley and Angela Cherry-Garrard; thence by descent to the present owner. See illustration on preceding page.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 86•
Auktion:
Datum:
26.06.2019
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

POLAR CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY) The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, with a loosely inserted AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, half-titles, 48 plates (6 colour, 10 folding panoramas), 5 maps (4 folding), a few short nicks and light foxing to edges of folding plates, publisher's cloth-backed blue-grey boards, paper spine labels, spines frayed [Spence 277; Taurus 84], Constable & Co., 1922; 'Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World', separate printing of the Postscript included in the 1951 edition, on 2 large folded unopened sheets, with integral title-page, creased at edges, Printed for the Author, 1951; 'Foreword', separate printing (possibly proof) of the Foreword written by George Seaver for inclusion in the 1965 edition, with a loosely inserted letter to Jean Savill from Angela Cherry-Garrard ("This little memoir about Cherry comes with my best wishes for Christmas and the New Year"), cloth-backed boards with leather label lettered in gilt "A.C-G. 1886-1959", [1965], 8vo (4) Fußnoten First edition of Cherry-Garrard's classic account of the Winter Journey as part of the Terra Nova expedition, and a small group of association items including an autograph letter to Norman Savill (of Savills estate agents) dated 2 May 1949, beginning "I have kept this book too long. I am interested because I am interested in Curzon who came out of it as a most awful blackguard which I am inclined to think he was"; it was Curzon who led the inquiry as president of the RGS, and of whom Cherry-Garrard wrote "The Committee (Curzon) meant to hush up everything. I was to be sacrificed" (Annotated Diary, volume 4, 12 October 1912 to 9 March 1913, SPRI MS 554/19/4). Provenance: S.G. Loveday, 1922, ownership signatures on front free endpapers of first work; Norman and Jean Savill, letters and pamphlets from Apsley and Angela Cherry-Garrard; thence by descent to the present owner. See illustration on preceding page.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 86•
Auktion:
Datum:
26.06.2019
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
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