The Ascent of Everest. HUNT, John.
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Limited 40th anniversary edition, number 217 of 500 copies signed by ten of the surviving mountaineers from Hillary's 1953 expedition. They include John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, Alf Gregory, Charles Wylie, George Lowe, Michael Ward, George Band, and Michael Westmacott. Octavo. Colour photographic frontispiece, 7 other colour plates (one double-page), 8 black and white photographic plates, numerous sketches, maps and plans to the text. Original blue half leatherette, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides, front cover with anniversary device in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With the original blue cloth slipcase. Spine mildly faded: a bright, near-fine copy in well-preserved slipcase.
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