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High Adventure.

Name: High Adventure.
Author: Hillary, Edmund.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. 225; coloured frontis., b & w photo. illusts.; very good in contemporary full leather with lettering pieces to spine, in a purpose-made slipcase. Inscribed on the title-page from the author, “To Muriel Brent-Smith E. P. Hillary”.

Dealer Notes

Neate H81; Yakushi (3rd ed.) H316a; Perret 2257; Salkeld & Boyle H15. Hillary devotes his autobiography to accounts of the Everest reconnaissance in 1951, and of his successful first ascent in 1953.

Author Hillary, Edmund.

Date [1955]

Binding Contemporary full calf

Publisher London: Hodder & Stoughton

Condition See description

Pages pp. 225

Price: £195.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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