High Adventure
HILLARY, Edmund
With Maps by A. Spark and Sketches by George Djurkouic.
SIGNED [WITHOUT DEDICATION] BY THE AUTHOR
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1955]
Stock code: 52046
Price: £980.00
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, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter faintly rubbed at joints, lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip, and very faintly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SCARCER 'E P HILLARY' SIGNATURE [WITHOUT DEDICATION] ON TITLE. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. Hillary's climbing autobiography with Everest 1953 as its climax. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION. Neate 369