The Worst Journey in the World

UK true first: Constable, London, 1922, the polar high spot and the edition to collect. The first American edition, George H. Doran Company, New York, 1922, appeared in the same year and was printed in the UK from the same sheets, issued in two volumes in linen-spined grey papered boards with a spine label; critically, the Doran issue was published WITHOUT the ten panoramic plates, which is both the practical UK/US test and the reason the Constable issue is preferred. Both are catalogued targets, but precedence rests unambiguously with Constable.