The Ascent of Everest. [Together with] Ascent of Everest 1953 Lecture Notes [a d] The Times Everest Colour Supplement [and] Our Everest Adventure. The Pictorial History from Kathmandu to the Summit. HUNT, John.

First edition, signed by the author on the title page and by George Band, the youngest member of the team, on the dedication page. This work is accompanied by a small collection of material centred on the 1953 Everest Expedition, during which Hillary and Norgay became the first to reach the summit. John Hunt (1910-1998) was the leader of the expedition and composed his autobiography "in an astonishing thirty days" (ODNB). A first edition of the abbreviated pictorial version, Our Everest Adventure, accompanies this work. The collection also includes notes from the post-expedition lecture tour of 1953 and The Times Everest Colour Supplement. Both feature photographs of the expedition and advertisements of products used on the mountain, including Kodak colour film and flavoured Simpkins glucose tablets. "The Times special correspondent", who wrote the supplement, is presumably Jan Morris, who was the only reporter travelling with the expedition and who delivered the news that the men had reached the summit. Neate H135; Neate 395; Yakushi H269a. Meena Khorana, The Indian Subcontinent in Literature, 1991. 4 works, various sizes. The Ascent of Everest with colour frontispiece and 7 other colour plates, 48 half-tone plates, sketches, maps and plans to the text; Ascent of Everest 1953 Lecture Notes with illustrations and advertisements to text; The Times Everest Colour Supplement with illustrations and advertisements to text; Our Everest Adventure with illustrations to text. The Ascent of Everest: Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket designed by William Heaton Cooper. Ascent of Everest 1953: Wire-stitched in original paper wrappers. The Times Everest: Wire-stitched in original paper wrappers. Our Everest Adventure: Original illustrated boards, spine lettered in white, covers lettered and decorated with illustration of Everest in blue. With pictorial dust jacket. The Ascent of Everest: Slight spine lean, spine ends bumped, tips rubbed, contents clean; jacket unclipped, slightly soiled, spine toned. Ascent of Everest 1953: Edges of front cover sunned, a little creased. The Times Everest: Foxed and lightly soiled, spine reinforced. Our Everest Adventure: Spine ends bumped, boards slightly bowed; jacket price-clipped, toned, spine sunned. A very good collection overall.