hunt brigadier sir john (23 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Worn. First Edition. Chapter16 is by Edmund Hillary. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Appendices by Members of the 1953 British Expedition to Mt Everest. 300pp. Colour and b/w photographs. B/w line drawings. The bottom of the front cover is marked.

Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in Dunedin.

LACKS D/W, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. A hardback volume in Acceptable to Good condition, in a very scruffy and torn dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.

Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Suzanna Taylor (illustratore). Readers Union. 328 pages + numerous plates, b/w illustrations & coloured photographs. Original dust jacket, near fine, no loss, spine browned, in clear removable archival sleeve. Original hardback binding, unmarked. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good to Worn - Marks. Fourth Impression. Chapter 16 is by Edmund Hillary. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Appendices by Members of the 1953 British Expedition to Mt Everest. 300pp. Colour and b/w photographs. B/w line drawings. The bottom of the front cover is marked.

[NONE] 1953. (hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. xx, 300pp. 8vo. Jacket, light blue, printed in white, shows light wear at the upper and lower edges. Corners softly bumped. Else is clean and bright. Black and white as well as colour photographs. Black and white drawings. Foreword by H.R.M. Duke of Edinburgh. Cahpter 16 by Sir Edmund Hillary. Appendices by Members of the Expedition.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good PLUS. First UK Edition. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1954. 1st UK edition. Colour frontispiece. Colour and, black & white plates. Clean & tight. Flat pages. PAGE EDGES ARE FOXED. Front end paper has a small inscription dated 1957 at the top corner. No other inscriptions. Jacket has edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 21s. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref OFBED. NANGA PARBAT Incorporating the Official Report of the Expedition of 1953.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine, top page edge sstained brown- faded, frontispiece, xii + 209pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to spine, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. By Author (illustratore). First Edition. Trivial chipping to head and heel of spine and corners.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Photographs (Various) (illustratore). First Edition, 2nd Impression of 1953. Text/New & Bright. First Edition, 2nd Impression of Dec, 1953. Blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF; light edge wear & faint discoloration; under mylar. Upper text edge dyed blue. Frontis: Tenzin on Everest's summit, 29th May, 1953. Chronicle of the 1953 historic ascent of Mount Everest by leader of the British Expedition, Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt (1910 - 1998); Chapter 16 by new Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary (1919 - 2008) who, together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (1914 - 1986), reached the summit on May 29th, 1953. 300 pgs, color & b/w photos, 18 chapters in 6 parts: I, Background; II, Plannin; III, Approach; IV, Build-up; V, Assault; and VI, Aftermath, followed by 9 Appendices by members of the Expedition & Glossary. Fine copy.

1954, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 299 paginas, ilustraciones fuera de texto a toda pagina, 22x15, nuevas cubiartas en rustica sin impresion, buen estado.

Very Good pp255. section of b/w illus. inc. portraits. paperback Signed by Jan Morris.

1st ed. thus hardback in original cloth As New octavo 62pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, Contained within The National Geographic Magazine Vol. CVI, No. 1. This is within a bound volume for the period July-December 1954.

vol. XVIII Very Good- pp190. panorama frontis. 9 illus. Third American Karakoram Expedition by H.R.A. Streather. orig. grey printed wrappers, fr. re-attached.

1st. edition. published 12.11.53 (500,000 copies) Fine- pp300. cold. frontis. 7 cold. plates. 48 b/w. text illus. by Charles Evans. in orig. blue cloth gilt and unusually very bright indeed. one of the very best condition copies that I have seen. in 25/- net unpc dw.

London 1953. 8vo. Orig.cloth. In defective dustjacket. xx300pp. With col. frontisp. 55 full-page plates of which 7 are col. text-illusts. and 3 full-page maps. 1st edition. NOTE: An account of the first successful climb of Mt. Everest in 1953 by the leader of the expedition.

8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured and 48 monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top a little faded else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by W. Heaton Cooper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate 393.

1st. Limited Fine- pp300. cold. frontis. 7 cold. plates. 48 b/w. text illus. by Charles Evans. Limited Edition especially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, but this is NOT a numbered (of 20 copies) copy, nor is it signed by John Hunt and Edmund Hillary as usual. In original publishers de-luxe binding in blue half morocco and cloth. raised spine bands and gilt dec. panels. t.e.g. head and tailpiece with marbled e.p.'s This unique copy being, presumably, an extra copy bound should one of the 20 be spoiled? It does have the ink signatures of John Hunt Leader EVEREST 1953, Edmund Hillary 11/7/53 and Tenzing 7 7 53 all loosely inserted to make it even more desirable as the only such one existing!

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Colour Kodac print on matte paper: 3 and 3/8 x 5 inches (8.5 x 12.5 cm). In good condition, with light indentation of paperclip at head. A smiling elderly Hunt stands, with plaid shirt and hands in pockets of brown trousers, looking to his right, in front of a range of mountains. On the reverse is stuck a label signed 'John Hunt'. See images.

Very Good pp320. cold and b/w illus. inc. portraits. sketches in text by Charles Evans. Signed by Jan Morris. unpc dw.

1st. edition. published 12.11.53 (500,000 copies) Near Fine pp300. cold. frontis. 7 cold. plates. 48 b/w. text illus. by Charles Evans. Signed by John Hunt (tipped in). George Band, Michael Ward, George Lowe and Jan Morris. pc dw.

1st. edition. published 12.11.53 (500,000 copies) Very Good- pp300. cold. frontis. 7 cold. plates. 48 b/w. text illus. by Charles Evans. Signed on original paper laid on f.e.p. by John Hunt, Tenzing, E.P. Hillary, Wilfrid Noyce, Charles Wylie, G. Pugh,Tom Stobart, Charles Evans (on paper), G.C. Band, M.H. Westmacott, W.G. Lowe, Michael Ward, Alf Gregory together with two expedition letters from him to Joe Renwick. unpc dw-.