[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of "The Conquest of Everest" w/Edmund Hillary's ink signature

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MOUNTAINEERING) Hunt, John. THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST. With a Chapter on the Final Assault by Sir Edmund Hillary. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1954. First edition. xx,300pp. Index. Plus 8 color plates (1, a frontispiece), 48 black & white plates, 6 maps and drawings, and numerous pen sketches throughout the text. Olive cloth spine over pictorial blue cloth stamped in white. Dust jacket (tiny chips at top edge, but still a fine copy in a very good d.j.). Signed by Edmund Hillary in ink on a bookplate mounted on the front free endpaper.    $150.00 (trade discount allowed)

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