(Mountaineering, Edmund Hillary.) Alfred Gregory; John Hunt ...

Hammer

£180

(Mountaineering, Edmund Hillary.) Alfred Gregory; John Hunt (Intro.): 'The Picture of Everest', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1954, 1st edition, signed by Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) in blue ink to colour plate from photograph depicting him at the summit of Mt. Everest, 29th May 1953, and signed by fellow mountaineer and member of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest expedition George Lowe (1924-2013) on FFEP, 43 colour plates from photographs as called for, 4to, original decorative Japanese vellum gilt, dust wrapper (blue with gilt lettering), together with another 1954 1st edition copy of the same work, variant original blue cloth gilt, dust wrapper (pale blue, brick red lettering), plus a Times 1953 Everest colour supplement, [24]pp, colour & b/w ills. from photographs, maps etc throughout, folio, original colour pictorial wraps depicting Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (3)