Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 540

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.) Harrer, Heinrich. The White Spider. 6 photogravure plates of the ascent of the Eiger by Harrer, selected from his personal collection for this edition, reproduced from the negatives. 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 clamshell box; prospectus laid in. New York, 1996

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number 24 of 300 copies signed by harrer. An historic account of the conquest of the Eiger and its "North Face" by Harer in 1938. A classic of mountaineering, first published in 1959.