signed first edition Hardcover
N.D. · Garden City, NY
by Hillary, Edmund
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. N.D.. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dustjacket exhibiting brilliant color. Only slight rubbing of book corners and spine and small tear at back top corner of dustjacket; "The dramatic, often amusing story of Sir Edmund Hillary's return to the Himalayas in March, 1963, to fulfill a promise -- to repay the Sherpas, a rugged Himalayan people, with schools, water systems and medical aid, for the loyal and courageous service they had rendered to many mountaineering expeditions over the years" -- and to attempt two great unclimbed peaks, Taweche and Kangtega (from the dustjacket) ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 14139)