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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. Hardcover. Very good/good+. First popular edition, containing only the narrative. 299 pp, with index, illustrations, folding map. Mild spine lean, corners lightly bumped, gift inscription dated 1937 on front free endpaper. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket (illustrated by Bib Pares) is price-clipped and has chips and tears at the spine ends. Account of the 1933 British expedition to Everest, led by Ruttledge, which reached about 28,120 feet, but failed to make the summit.

London 1934, Hodder. Blue cloth, 390p., index, chronology, 4 large fold-out color maps, 13 charts, statistics, tables, 59 b. w. photos, large size 17 x 26.5 cm., a very good nice copy. FIRST BRITISH EDITION Official source for the history 1933 ascent of Everest. Includes the first, second & third attempts, observations, with extracts from an Everest diary, & group of essays by members of the expedition. With a list of plants collected, geology, weather, medical information and transport. * Great primary resource on Mt. Everest. * REFERENCE: Neate R99 Yakushi R213a * .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Good minus jacket. In navy blue cloth covers with fairly bright gilt lettering on spine. Intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. All maps, photographs, and diagrams present. frontispiece with tissue guard. Bumping of ends of spine. Light bowing to covers. Random light foxing. Moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936 299 numbered pp; HB. The copyright notes "The present edition (the 5th impression of the work) is the first popular edition consisting of the narrative which forms the major part of hte original book, and is dated May 1936." Pages: clean, bright, tight, photo frontis (telephoto of Mount Everest from Base Camp); a.e. lt tanned. Cover: lt blue, navy titles front/spine, modest shelfwear, overal lt soil, titles sopmeaht rubbed. Expedition fold-out map. Regarding the first of Ruttledge's two unsuccessful attempts.

London; (1947): Hodder & Stoughton. Small Octavo. 5th (black jacket edition). 254 pages, index. Hugh Ruttledge led an expedition once the Tibetan government finally granted permission. Besides the two page map, there are 10 photographs showing Camps I-IV and when they reached 22,800 feet. Though there had been several attempts in the 1920's, the 1933 was the first major attempt which showed how future attempts would have to be planned differently. By 1950, Nepal began to allow expeditions. A fascinating look at what was happening 20 years before Sir Edmund Percival Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to ascend to Everest's summit. Bound in gray cloth decorated in blind, spine lettering black, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, which has off-set to the front cover, rubbed and with some wear to spine ends and corners.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1934. hardcover Very Good/Good early reprint large 8vo, blue cloth binding with gold lettering, upper corner bumped, DJ is priceclipped and edgeworn with small chips at top and bottom of spine, DJ spine darkened, owner's name, edges and interior pages lightly foxed, an account of a Mount Everest mountaineering expedition, beautifully illustrated with sepia toned photographs, two fold-out maps, index, 390 pages.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed By Author on half title: 'Best wishes from Hugh Ruttledge Feb. 1938' (no recipient's name). Ruttledge was the leader of this important (but ultimately unsuccessful) expedition, which although it did not summit, set an altitude record that stood for years. The first 'Popular Edition' in original jacket (jacket has chip to top of spine with loss of last two letters of Everest, smaller minor chips to edges and a few spots; book has corresponding fading to cloth beneath chips; some foxing to text edges; neat ink signature of prior owner on title page). B/w plates, folding map at rear.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934 First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Ruttledge on front free endpaper: "Best wishes - / Hugh Ruttledge / 24.x.1934." Publisher's dark blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, with fifty-nine full-page photographs, three diagrams in text, and four maps; original pictorial dust jacket with photo of climbers in snow to front panel, lettered in blue. Near fine, with light toning and soiling to spine, a touch of wear to spine ends, minor soiling to tail-edge of text block, and light spotting to page edges (photo pages very clean); very good unclipped dust jacket with some toning to spine, chip to lower left of front panel (loss to part of the author's first name), two small closed tears to top of front panel, light wear to spine ends including a bit of shallow chipping to head of spine, and minor reinforcement to spine ends on jacket verso. Overall, an excellent signed copy, in a very pleasing example of the original dust jacket. In… Read More