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Inscribed by Hillary on title-page
Inscribed by Hillary on title-page
Inscribed by Hillary on title-page
Inscribed by Hillary on title-page

Inscribed by Hillary


HILLARY, Edmund

High Adventure

London Hodder and Stoughton, 1955

£750.00
£750.00

High Adventure

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An autobiographical account of his various climbs on Everest including the successful 1953 ascent of Everest. Inscribed on title page by Hillary and dated July 23rd 1955..

First edition. Inscribed in ink by Edmund Hillary on title-page; 8vo; colour photographic frontispiece, 31 photographic illustrations, slight age-toning to leaves, some spotting to the fore-edge; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, light offsetting to endpapers, with the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket; some wear to corners and head and foot of spine, chipped at top of spine; a good copy.224pp

Stock code 123020

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Inscribed by Hillary on title-page

High Adventure

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