HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest.

HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest.HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. London, Sydney, Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton. 1993. 8vo. Original half blue morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt vignette to upper board, gilt title to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, preserved in the original blue cloth slipcase; pp. xvi, 280, colour frontispiece., 14 black and white photographic plates, 7 colour photographic plates, four sketch maps and several illustrations after drawings in

HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. London, Sydney, Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton. 1993.

8vo. Original half blue morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt vignette to upper board, gilt title to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, preserved in the original blue cloth slipcase; pp. xvi, 280, colour frontispiece., 14 black and white photographic plates, 7 colour photographic plates, four sketch maps and several illustrations after drawings in text; faint trace of removed label in upper outer corner on verso of front fly-leaf; otherwise fine.

Limited Edition, number 85 of 500 copies issued on the 40th Anniversary of the first ascent of Everest, signed by the following members of the 1953 Expedition: John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffiths Pugh, George Band, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward, and Edmund Hillary.

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