The Crossing of Antarctica: The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58 by Fuchs, Sir Vivian & Sir Edmund Hillary

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1958). xv, 328 pp. Color and b/w plates, maps. Endpaper maps. First American edition/ The story of the Commonwealth Transantarctica Expedition. Bound in original blue cloth. Backstrip sunned else very good condition.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.Stated 'First published 1958.] NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,fairly clean - with exception of residue of cup ring to dw/djs' front panel,matt,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with dark grey (?) lettering to front and spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - a tiny closed snick at head of spine/backstrip.Top edge possibly coloured pale blue(?) with faint sporadic dust-soiling flecks or foxing,fore-edges uncoloured and brighter but also with ubiquitous,but sporadic lighter foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean - page edge foxing spots excepted,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Barely perceptible foxing to front blank+half-title and some minimal foxing to last 8pp of index and the rear blank.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain RAF blue cloth boards… Read More