Description
First edition, first issue of The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt, signed by Sir Edmund Hillary.
Octavo, xx, 300pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated “First Printed 1953” on copyright page. Complete with frontispiece, 7 full page color photographs, 48 black and white plates. Faint offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket. Solid text block. Period ownership inscription on front free endpaper. In the publisher’s dust jacket, retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, touch of soiling and wear to spine, small chip along top edge, bright illustrations. Dust jacket designed by W. Heaton Cooper. (Neate, 393)
Signed by Edmund Hillary on the title page.
Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer who took part in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. He and Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to reach the summit.
