[Rarebooks] FS: Two Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary

[Charles Agvent]

Next week we will be posting on our website a collection of fine 
mountaineering titles including a number of nineteenth and early 
twentieth century titles.  The following two items are from that list 
and are posted today in honor of the death yesterday of one of the 
greatest explorers of modern times.

1.  HILLARY,  Sir  Edmund. HIGH ADVENTURE. Norwalk, CT:  Easton  Press
2003.  First Edition. Bound in full burgundy publisher's leather  with
gilt  ornamentation  and heraldic design on the front and rear  covers
with  the  motto "Nothing Venture Nothing Win." The  50th  Anniversary
Edition  of  Hillary's account of his and Tensing Norgay's  ascent  to
the  "roof  of the world," the summit of Mount Everest. SIGNED by  the
author on the limitation page. New, in shrinkwrap.             $250.00

2.  HILLARY,  Edmund. NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING WIN. New York:  Coward,
McCann  & Geoghegan (1975). First American. Illustrated with  drawings
and   color  and  black-and-white   photographs.  The  most   complete
autobiography  of  the first man to stand on top of Mount Everest  and
the  leader  of  the first vehicle party overland to the  South  Pole.
SIGNED  by the author on the title page. Fine in a Very Good or better
dustwrapper.                                                   $350.00

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