(Mountaineering, Climbing, Travel), a collection of 43 mount...

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£1,600

(Mountaineering, Climbing, Travel), a collection of 43 mountaineering books and a folder of signed mountaineering photographs, this includes black & white portrait photograph of Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), bearing signature "Ed Hillary" in blue ink, 25x20cm, with JG autographs certificate of authenticity, colour photograph of Mount Everest, signed in black pen by the Italian Mountaineer Hans Kammerlander, 20x25cm, with JG autographs certificate of authenticity, plus 4 other similar signed colour photos of Everest, signed respectively Hans Kammerlander, Stacy Allison, Chris Bonington & Junko Tabei, each 20x25cm; together with books including F.S. Smythe 'Kamet Conquered', Gollancz, 1932, 1st edition, plus 2 others same author; Wilfrid Noyce 'South Col', 1954, 1st in wrapper; Monica Jackson 'The Turkish Time Machine', L, H & S, 1966, 1st edition, orig cloth gilt, d/w, an account of climbing Cilo Dagi/Eastern Taurus mountains, SE Turkey; Eric Shipton 'Nanda Devi', 1936 1st edition, plus 1936 2nd impression of same title, plus two 1969 1st edition copies of his autobiography 'That Untravelled World', both in d/w's, plus 'The Mount Everest Reconaissance Expedition 1951', 1952 1st in wrapper; Pierre 'A Mountain Called Nun Kun', 19551, 1st in wrapper; Eiselin 'Ascent of Dhaulagiri', 1961 1st UK edn in wrapper; Herzog 'Annapurna', Stephen 'Men Books and Mountains', Hogarth Press, 1956, 1st in wrapper, 'At Grips with Jannu', 'Tenzing of Everest', Hardie 'In Highest Nepal', 1957 1st in wrapper, five 'Mountaineering Library' series titles published by Blackwell, all in wrappers, 'Wolfgang Gullich Life in the Vertical', Boulder Edition, 1994, 1st, orig. pictorial boards, Carl Egger 'Im Kaukasus', Basel, Frobenius, 1915, numerous ills. from photos, plus others Caucasus, Himalaya, Yosemite, Kilimanjaro, Alps, etc