TRAVEL 78 “One Of The Classics Of Antarctic Literature” 99CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-13. London, 1922. Two volumes. Octavo, original half white cloth, gray paper boards. $9000 First edition, rare first issue, of Cherry-Garrard’s firsthand account of the most famous of Antarctic expeditions, richly illustrated with reproductions of sketches and photographs, five maps, and ten folding panoramas. Cherry-Garrard served on Robert Scott’s tragic 1910-12 expedition to Antarctica. Dr. Wilson chose Bowers and CherryGarrard as his companions for a winter journey in 1911 to the base of Mount Terror to collect Emperor Penguin eggs. The following summer he accompanied Scott’s polar party as far as the summit of the Beardmore Glacier, as planned. Scott arrived at the Pole only to find that a Norwegian team had beaten him there by a month. On the return journey, plagued by blizzards and illness, the sledge party perished near One Ton Depot, where their bodies and diaries were found eight months later by a search party that included Cherry-Garrard. “A very literate, detailed account of the expedition… one of the classics of Antarctic literature” (Conrad, 173). Rare first issue, in original half white cloth and paper-covered boards. Conrad, 173. Interior fine; scattered light foxing to edges of text blocks. Usual light scattered foxing and soiling to paper boards, mild rubbing to cloth spine ends. Cloth spines evenly toned to beige, as always. An about-fine copy, scarce in first-issue boards. “One Of The Great Illustrated Books Of The World”: Jerrold’s London, 1872, With 180 Wood-Engravings By Gustave Doré 100(LONDON) DORÉ, Gustave and JERROLD, Blanchard. London: A Pilgrimage. London, 1872. Large folio, contemporary three-quarter red morocco. $5800 First edition of Doré and Jerrold’s London, with 54 striking fullpage wood-engravings and 126 in-text vignettes of “all segments of London society” by Doré. Handsomely bound. “One can hardly deny that Doré is not merely one of the most popular but also one of the greatest of all illustrators… Perhaps Taine summed up Doré’s appeal most eloquently: ‘every imagination appeared languid in comparison with his. For energy, force, superabundance, originality, sparkle, and gloomy grandeur, I know only one equal to his—that of Tintoretto’… Doré’s devastating realization of the contrast of wealth and poverty in a modern metropolis makes London one of the great illustrated books of the world. The English edition antedates the French by four years, and indeed it is a handsomer book” (Ray, 327-29) “The other day,” once wrote Vincent van Gogh, “I saw a complete set of Doré’s pictures of London. I tell you it is superb, and noble in sentiment.” Indeed, Van Gogh based his 1890 painting “En Prison” on Doré’s illustration “Newgate Exercise Yard,” which appears on page 136. Plates and text clean, corners somewhat rubbed. A near-fine copy.
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