High Adventure
Price: $600.00
Hard Cover. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
Illustrated with a color frontispiece, maps by A. Spark, and sketches by George Djurkouic. First edition, first printing, with "First printed 1955" to copyright page and no subsequent printings noted. Signed by Hillary in blue pen on the half-title page. Publisher's dark blue cloth, with spine lettered in gilt; in the original pictorial dust jacket, with an illustration of Hillary in the Himalayas to the front panel, lettered in black. Near fine book, with light dimming to spine gilt, offsetting to endpapers, and contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper; fair unclipped dust jacket, with very light toning to spine, some wear to spine ends, heavy wear to panel edges including some closed tears, creases, and a chip to top right corner of front panel, and light spotting to panels. Overall, a solid, internally clean copy. The author's first book, High Adventure, is Sir Edmund Hillary's personal account of his experiences climbing Mt. Everest, which culminates in a description of the 1953 expedition that achieved the first successful ascension. Throughout the text, Hillary describes his climbing partners and fellow expedition members with whom he collaborated throughout his climbing career, noting that many of them, including Tenzing Norgay and George Lowe, were his close friends. As Hillary writes in his dedication, "I have gained much from the mountains, and not least has been the companionship of many fine mountaineers." Item #SEH008
