HILLARY, Sir EDMUND

FIRST EDITION; SIGNED BY AUTHOR (HIS EARLY STYLE OF SIGNATURE, CONTEMPORARY TO PUBLICATION); Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 255pp, illus: maps, diagrams & photo plates, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light adhesion soiling to eps, light foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (a few small spots of heavy soiling, light rubbing, creasing & tanning, price-clipped)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1961

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HILLARY, EDMUND & SPARK, A (Maps) & DJURKOUIC, GEORGE (Sketches)

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PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1955

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WATSON, NIGEL & USSHER, JANE (Photo)

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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2018

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GILL, MICHAEL

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PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2017

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HILLARY, EDMUND & SPARK, A (Maps) & DJURKOUIC, GEORGE (Sketches)

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PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1955

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