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High Adventure Signed Copy by HILLARY Edmund - 1955

by HILLARY Edmund

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High Adventure Signed Copy by HILLARY Edmund - 1955

High Adventure Signed Copy

by HILLARY Edmund

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
London: Hodder, 1955 hardcover with light age browning of end papers, has pen name and address to paste down and small pen name to fep, HALF TITLE is SIGNED ' E P Hillary ' so is an early signature rather than his later 'Ed', unclipped dust jacket has very mild rubbing to the corner tips, and some very faint scattered foxing, HYNDMANS bookseller label to foot of paste down, still an excellent SIGNED first edition of this classic account of Hillary's climbing career culminating in the successful Everest Expedition, plates and drawings throughout . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by George Djurkouic. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
  • Bookseller Fortuna Books NZ (NZ)
  • Illustrator George Djurkouic
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Hodder
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1955
  • Keywords Mountaineering Climbing Himalaya Everest Edmund Hillary Signed Collectable Rare

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Signed Copy. High Adventure.

by Hillary, Edmund

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
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Used
Binding
Hardcover
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London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1955., 1955. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 224. Colour frontispiece plus 31 monochrome photographic plates, each with multiple images; line drawings by George Djurkouic and maps by A Spark within text. Publishers' blue cloth with green titles and ruling to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly soiled, with spine lightly partially sunned and boards bruised to edge and corners. Ownership inscription to front paste-down in ink, and another in pencil to ffep; signature of the Author, without dedication, to title page. A little scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and endpapers, and very slight staining to free endpapers, otherwise contents clean and bright. Minor nicks & creases to jacket, and very slight loss at spine tips; jacket likely supplied from another copy. A Very Good copy overall, in like jacket. Climbing autobiography of Hillary's part in expeditions over his lifetime and the the Everest 1953 expedition in particular. Signed… Read More
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