HUNT JOHN Sir The Ascent of Everest 1953 Signed by 11 team m

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HUNT, JOHN, Sir. The Ascent of Everest. Illustrated. xx, 299, [1] pages. 8vo, 221x145 mm, original cloth, binding slightly cocked, spine chipped at top; contents clean; dust jacket (unclipped, edges worn, spine panel darkened, chipped and dampstained at top). Bookplate of Gordon W. Provis. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1953)

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first edition, first printing. Farquhar/Cox 39; Neate H135; Yakushi (1994) H470a. with the signatures of eleven team members on 5 blank leaves bound in front: Hunt, Sir Edmund Hillary, Charles Evans, Tom Bourdillon, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, George Band, Wilfrid Noyce, Michael Ward, and Griffith Pugh, and the taped cut signature of Jan Morris as James; also with a mounted group photo taken at the Pen-Y-Cwryd Hotel in Snowdonia, Wales.

with: HILLARY, EDMUND, Sir. High Adventure. Illustrated. 8vo, 203x137 mm, original cloth, binding slightly cocked; contents clean; dust jacket (price clipped, edges worn, rear panel chipped in corner). London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1955). first edition, signed by hillary on the title. Neate H81; Yakushi (1994) H316a.