The Ascent Of Everest. Special Limited Edition Signed By The Remaining 10 Members Of The 1953 Everest Expedition.

LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies issued on the 40th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest, this one hand-numbered 135 and SIGNED by John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, Alfred Gregory, Sir Edmund Hillary, Mike Westmacott, George Band, Charles Wylie, George Lowe and Michael Ward. 8vo., in publisher's original half blue morocco gilt, raised bands to spine, over blue cloth boards with gilt vignette, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, in blue cloth slipcase; Limitation page with signatures + [xvi] + 280pp, indexed, with colour frontis, 14 b/w and 7 colour photographs, plus 4 maps and several text illustrations. VG bright copy in a VG slipcase.