Description
First edition, first impression of The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt, signed by Sir Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, Maurice Herzog, Jon Krakauer and 26 other mountaineers.
Octavo, xx, 300pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated “First Printed 1953” on copyright page. Light wear to cloth, rubbing to tips of spine. Complete with frontispiece, seven full page color photographs, 48 black and white plates. Faint offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket. Solid text block. Small bookseller’s label on the rear pastedown. In the publisher’s dust jacket, 25/- net retail price on front flap, light shelf wear and sunning to the spine, bright illustrations. Dust jacket designed by W. Heaton Cooper.
(Neate, 393)
Signed by Edmund Hillary on the title page, along with 29 other notable mountaineers, including 19 Everest summiteers.
This copy is signed by the following 30 mountaineers: Conrad Anker, Pete Athans, Babu Chiri Sherpa, Henry Barber, Dick Bass, Chris Bonington, David Breashears, Carlos Buhler, Adrian Burgess, Kurt Diemberger, Norman Dyhrenfurth, Tom Frost, Lene Gammelgaard, Nawang Gombu, Maurice Herzog, Edmund Hillary, Tom Hornbein, Jon Krakauer, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Jeff Lowe, Reinhold Messner, Paul Petzoldt, Rick Ridgeway, Galen Rowell, Vern Tejas, Ed Viesturs, Bradford Washburn, Jim Whittaker, Lou Whittaker, and Jim Wickwire.
