High Adventure
HILLARY, Edmund
With Maps by A. Spark and Sketches by George Djurkouic.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1955]
Stock code: 44808
Price: £420.00
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 70 plates on 32, numerous line illustrations (a number full-page) and several full-page maps in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettering very slightly dulled else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at head and tail of backstrip.
Hillary's climbing autobiography with Everest 1953 as its climax. INCREASINGLY ELUSIVE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Neate 369