Mount Everest 1938
Cambridge University press, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth with blind stamped crest to cover and gilt titles to spine. In original pictorial dustwrapper. Forty-nine black and white illustrations and four maps. A very good copy, with previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, in a near very good price-clipped dustwrapper with chips to the spine ends, and tear to rear panel reinforced to the verso.
British mountaineer Harold William (Bill) Tilman participated in two Mount Everest expeditions, and in 1938 led the expedition which reached 27,200 feet without the use of supplemental oxygen.
Stock ID: 46332
£75.00
