Description
First American edition of The Conquest of Everest by Sir John Hunt, signed by five members of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, including Sir Edmund Hillary.
Octavo, xx, 300pp. Blue and tan cloth, title in navy blue on spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. Solid text block, free of marks or notations. Complete with frontispiece and 7 full-page color photographs. In publisher’s dust jacket, $6.00 retail price on front flap, slight wear to edges, short closed tear along bottom edge of front panel, with vibrant imagery and text, a near fine example.
(Neate, H135)
Signed by five members of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition on front free endpaper: Sir John Hunt, Sir Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, Charles Evans and James Morris.
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. Fellow signers in this copy include deputy expedition leader Charles Evans, documentary director George Lowe and travel journalist James Morris (Jan Morris as of 1972), who reported on the expedition to The Times of London.
