The Worst Journey in the World

The rare first issue is in half white cloth (buckram) over grey / blue-grey paper-covered boards with a printed spine label: Cherry-Garrard insisted on the white "Polar" half-binding because he wanted the book to look as handsome and as polar as possible, relatively few copies of the first edition were actually bound up that way, it soiled almost immediately with normal handling, and the book was quickly reissued in plain durable blue cloth, which is the state usually encountered on the market