SIGNED BY GENERAL GEOFFREY BRUCE
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance; the Assault on Mount Everest; the Fight for Everest
Arnold, 1922.
Three volumes, all first editions. 4to. All in the original publisher's cloth, lettered gilt to the upper covers and spines. Volumes two and three signed by the mountaineer, Geoffrey Bruce. Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs across the three volumes. A near fine set, remarkably fresh and unfaded. The second volume with a bump to the upper corner, and volume three with some chips to the edge of page 157. Previous ownership bookplates to front pastedowns of each and previous ownership inscriptions to volume two's front free endpaper. Excepting these minor faults an excellent, unusually well-preserved set.
First editions of the accounts of the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s.
Major General Geoffrey Bruce was an officer in the British Indian army and a member of the 1922 and 1924 expedition parties to climb Everest. In 1922 he set a new mountaineering world record height and was one of thirteen members of the expedition awarded an Olympic gold medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics.
Stock ID: 46321
£2,000.00
