Burma’s Icy Mountains
KINGDON-WARD, Frank
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1949]
Stock code: 29194
Price: £134.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 15 plates and 2 folding maps on japon; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
One of the author's scarcest works, chronicling two important expeditions (the Vernay-Cutting and another) into Burma's 20,000ft mountains between 1937 and 1939. His final journey was completed immediately before the outbreak of war. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Herbert 122; Neate 422; Schweinfurth: XIX; Yakushi K201.