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Editore: Hollis & Carter, London, 1955
Da: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Paperback. pp. xii, 206. 8vo. Colour frontis., black and white photographs. Spine and card covers creased, soiling to covers, corners thumbed, joints starting to split at base of spine; good. Proof copy.
Editore: Hollis & Carter
Da: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Erstwhile owner's signature on title page; interior pages foxed, but without any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.02.
Hardbound. Condizione: Very Good +. First Edition. An account of an expedition into the Nepal Himalaya in search of the fabled yeti. Sponsored by the London Daily Mail, the trek took place in 1953/54 over a period of five months, in and around the lower slopes of Everest. While no concrete proof of the existence of the yeti was recovered, many indirect pieces of evidence nevertheless convinced the party of the existence of the illusive snowman. Aside from the quest itself, the book reveals much fascinating detail about the lives of the legendary sherpas who live among the mountains. xii, 209 pp., 1 col. and 36 b&w photos. Size: 22 x 14 cm.
Editore: London: Hollis and Carter, 1955. dj, 1955
Da: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The story of an expedition in the foothills of Nepal and on the lower slopes of Everest in search of evidence of the existence of the 'yeti.' Illustrated with photographs, foreword by Brigadier Sir John Hunt. Index. 209 pages. Very good+ in a good only dustjacket (blank bookplate on front pastedown, chips at the ends of the spine of the dj, other edgewear.).
Editore: London: Hollis and Carter, 1955
Da: Mausoleum Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo bound in publisher's cloth. Very Good in like jacket with mild edge wear. 209 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Former owner's name to front pastedown.
Editore: Hollis & Carter, London, 1955
Da: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. First Edition. VG/VG-. 8vo. original brown boards (some speckling & marking, a little mottling to spine, prize bookplate to FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & frayed, some edge chipping and marking); pp. xii, 210 (last blank), with 37 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate S173: Account of the 1953-4 Daily Mail Himalayan Yeti expedition, organized by Ralph Izzard].
HARDCOVER. 1955, First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a very good, unclipped d/w with some light repaired edge wear. Now in a protective cover.
Editore: Hollis & Carter, London, 1955
Da: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: F-. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. F-/VG. 8vo. original red boards (inscrip. to FFE, bookseller's label to front pastedown, else clean) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine slightly sunned, spine ends slightly frayed with closed tears to spine and rear panel); pp. xii, 210 (last blank), with 37 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate S173: Account of the 1953-4 Daily Mail Himalayan Yeti expedition, organized by Ralph Izzard].
Data di pubblicazione: 1954
Da: Globus Rare Books & Archives, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condizione: None. Twenty-four gelatin silver contact sheets, each ca. 30x25 cm (ca. 12x10 in). Each sheet with nine to twelve photos, several with light leaks, so altogether with 272 good quality images, each ca. 6x5,5 cm (2 ¼ x 2 ¼ in). With ca. 60 period white ink manuscript captions on recto of the contact sheets (identifying single photos or groups of photos); several photos with hand-drawn pencil crosses. All sheets with period pencil or ink numbers, markings or captions on verso. The sheets are slightly wavy, several sheets with minor creases or tears on extremities not affecting the images, but overall a very good collection on strong interesting photos. The book: Stonor, C. The Sherpa and the Snowman. London: Hollis & Carter, 1955. First edition. Octavo. xii, 209 pp.: ill. Dust jacket (minor tears on extremities). Very good. Historically significant extensive collection of original gelatin silver photos, many previously unpublished, illustrating the 1954 "Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition in Search of the Yeti." Organized just a year after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, the "Daily Mail Expedition" was initiated by Ralph Izzard (1910-1992), an intrepid traveller, adventurer and journalist who built his entire career in the "Daily Mail" and accompanied the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition as the newspaper's correspondent. The members of the "Daily Mail" expedition included two participants of the 1953 Everest expedition (Tom Stobart and John Jackson), Biswamoy Biswas - a scientist with the Zoological Survey of India, American traveller Gerald Russell and British biologist Charles Stonor, who accompanied Izzard on his 1948 trip to the Apatani Valley in the eastern Himalayas in search of a mythical Buru, a dinosaur-like lizard. The "Daily Mail" expedition lasted from January to June 1954 and explored Nepal's Khumbu region in the vicinity of Mt. Everest, including the valleys of Bhote Kosi, Dudh Kosi, Chola Khola and Imja Kola Rivers. Charles Stonor left Kathmandu in December 1953 ahead of the main party and trekked eastward, looking for Yeti footprints and interviewing Sherpas on the way. The remaining team joined him in Namche Bazar in February 1954. The expedition didn't find Yeti or gather enough information to prove its existence but collected zoological specimens and identified two new bird species (Biswas, B. Zoological results of the "Daily Mail" Himalayan Expedition 1954. Two new birds from Khumbu, Eastern Nepal// Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. 1955, Vol. 75, pp. 87-88). The photos on Stonor's original contact sheets include over twenty pictures taken during his independent trekking to Namche Bazar and showing Those and Junbesi villages, their inhabitants and nearby scenery (mountains and valleys). The other photos document the expedition's movement in the Khumbu region and the high Himalayas. Two contact sheets contain lively scenes of "Sherpa life in Namche Bazaar" (general and street views and portraits of the locals at their everyday duties), and a series of photos on the other sheet depicts a "local ceremony in Namche Bazaar." The other photos show "Bhotekosi valley in and near Phorche village," "scenes in and near Thami" (Thame in the Bhote Kosi valley), lower and upper Dudh Kosi valley (with two portraits of a local "carving sacred inscriptions on stone"), Tengboche Monastery (general views and scenes inside, portraits of the monks wearing ceremonial masks, playing Tibetan horns, &c.), a local "hermit" and his dwelling "above Dingboche," Mounts Ama Dablam and Taboche, Barun glacier and pass, Hongu glacier, Everest Range, &c. Two photos depict "footprints of the Abominable Snowman." One contact sheet shows an expedition camp with party members and Sherpas cooking, eating, talking, and working; Tom Stobart and Ralph Izzard are identified in captions. The uncaptioned photos show the expedition members crossing a river, trekking in the high Himalayas,