Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 280

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MOUNT EVEREST.) Group of 7 volumes. Large 8vo, L'Assaut du Mont Everest in original wrappers in glassine dust jacket, the rest in original cloth, generally crisp, tight copies, all but Norton in dust jackets; contents clean except as noted. Vp, 1922-37
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first editions, except as noted. Farquhar/Cox 28, 29, 30, 33, 35; Neate H120, B196, N31, R99, R100; Yakushi (1994) H433a, B593a, B593b, N159a, R413a, R413b, R414. See also lots 254 and 256.

Howard-Bury. Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921. 33 plates; 3 maps. Free endpapers partly toned; dust jacket chipped in several places along top and bottom edge. London, 1922.

Bruce. The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922. 33 plates; 2 maps. Free endpapers partly toned; dust jacket slightly chipped at top of spine panel. London, 1923.

Bruce. L'Assaut du Mont Everest, 1922. 33 plates; 2 maps. Lower left corner of spine bumped. Chambéry, [1923]. first edition in french of the preceding work, de luxe issue. number 13 of 100 copies on vélin d'Arches.

Norton. The Fight for Everest: 1924. 32 plates; map. Small light stain at bottom of spine. Bookplate of Oscar Sutro. London, 1925.

Ruttledge. Everest 1933. 59 plates; 4 maps, all but one folding. Preliminaries foxed; dust jacket worn along edges and abraded in center of spine panel. London, 1934.

Ruttledge. Attack on Everest. Illustrated; double-page map; 3-D viewer in rear cover pocket. Spine faded; dust jacket chipped and torn in several places along edges with cellophane tape repair on verso. New York, 1935. first american edition of the preceding work.

Ruttledge. Everest: The Unfinished Adventure. 63 plates; 2 folding maps. Foxing on fore edges slightly showing internally; dust jacket price clipped. London, (1937).