High Adventure

£750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Inscribed by Hillary An autobiographical account of his various climbs on Everest including the successful 1953 ascent of Everest. Inscribed on title page by Hillary and dated July 23rd 1955.. First edition. Inscribed in ink by Edmund Hillary on title-page ; 8vo; colour photographic frontispiece, 31 photographic illustrations, slight age-toning to leaves, some spotting to the fore-edge; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, light offsetting to endpapers, with the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket; some wear to corners and head and foot of spine, chipped at top of spine; a good copy.224pp

• Binding: Hardcover

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