The True Book About Everest by Eric Shipton - 1955

Muller, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Stated. 142 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black paper covered boards and green lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Front free end paper is missing. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Pencil inscription to half-title page. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Clipped jacket. Jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears, and creasing.

Muller, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Stated. 142 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black paper covered boards and gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Gilt lettering is darkened. Clipped jacket. Jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Loss to jacket's spine ends and front panel.

Frederick Muller Ltd , 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. May, Stocks F. Prize plate awarded to the previous owner. Publication of 142 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Frederick Muller, 1956. Very good. Second Impression. Dust jacket: Good..

Frederick Muller, London, 1955. Hard Cover, 12mo, First Edition. Book Condition: Good. Moderate foxing edges. Boards and interior very clean. No jacket..

London: Shakespeare Head, 1955 G/G. 12mo. original black boards gilt (some scribbling, school library rsms & slight offsetting to endpapers, occ. mark or crease to leaves, otherwise clean) in dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned, edges worn & creased though with only minor loss, occ. biro marks); pp. 142, with 12 illustrations & 2 maps by F. Stocks May. A good reading copy. [Neate S67]. . First Edition. Hard Cover. G/VG-. Illus. by F. Stocks May.

London: Frederick Muller. Good in Good+ dust jacket. (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's marginalia and inscriptions on front endpaper. Some marginalia and underlining. Some foxing and dust stains to top page edges. Some dust stains to margins of endpapers. A 1" chip at corner of front panel of dust wrapper. 1/4" missing at head of dust wrapper spine. A 1/2" chip and some smaller 3/8" chips and tears to margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 142 pages. Black boards. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. A history of mountaineering on Mount Everest, from its naming by the British in the mid 19th century, to the British attempts to reach the summit in the 1920s, to the successful summiting by Hillary and Tenzing in 1953. The book seems to have been written for younger readers or young adult readers, but is still a readable account for the adult reader. With illustrations by F. Stocks May. "Here, in fact, told by an… Read More

1st edition. Published by Frederick Muller Ltd. in 1955. Illustrated by F. Stocks May. In fine condition. The dust jacket is faded and torn in several places, but the hardcover is undamaged. Small inscription penned on the flyleaf. Some tanning and foxing visible on the inside pages.