The Everest Trilogy; Mount Everest The Reconnaissance 1921, The Assault on Mount Everest 1922, and The Fight For Everest 1924
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922, 1923 and 1925. Three volume set, each a first US edition. Quartos, blue cloth with gilt titles, xi,356; xi,339, xi,372 pp. Complete with all frontispieces, plates and maps; 1921 with 32 plates and 3 maps, 1922 with 35 plates and 2 maps, 1924 with 31 plates, one map, and the "Panorama of the Route to Everest." A very good set. Bit of wear and scuffing to covers, mainly to corners and spines, sunning to spine of 1922, together with a hint of foxing and a few abrasions to covers of this volume, and bit of damp staining to lower corner of a few leaves of this volume. Bit of soiling to lower corner of text blocks. Foxing to pages, mainly to text block edges and upper portion of pages. Offsetting/yellowing to plates. Old bookseller description and newspaper clipping affixed to front pastedown of one volume, with offsetting from clipping on front endpaper. Item #12781
Price: $750.00