Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB / PRESS.) Harrer, Heinrich. The White Spider. Photographic plates of the ascent of the Eiger by Harrer. Small folio, morocco-backed grey linen with a three-dimensional relief of pebbles scraped from the icy rock surface, laid on a grey morocco inset on the front cover; felt-lined cloth clamshell box.

number 123 of 300 copies signed by harrer of his historic account of the conquest of the Eiger and its "North Face" in 1938. A classic of mountaineering, first published in 1959. (New York), 1996