JOHNSTON, ALEXA

Square quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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

PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders exploration explorers Sir Edmund Hillary biographies history climbing mountaineering

WATSON, NIGEL (Text) & USSHER, JANE (Photo)

Imperial 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

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2018

KEYWORDS: exploration Sir Edmund Hillary travel literature history Scott Base Antarctica South Pole New Zealand Zealanders

HUNT, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SIR EDMUND HILLARY (HIS EARLY SIGNATURE - E.P. HILLARY' - MORE FORMAL THAN THE LATER ED HILLARY'), super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, frontispiece, xx + 300pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems & edges, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1953

KEYWORDS: first editions signed Sir Edmund Hillary exploration New Zealand Zealanders Mount Everest climbing mountain mountaineering

HUNT, JOHN

SIGNED BY BOTH SIR EDMUND HILLARY & TENZING NORGAY, FIRST EDITION 2ND IMP., octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 300pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, light discolouration to spine, moderate tanning & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1953

KEYWORDS: exploration Mount Everest Sir Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay climbing mountaineering expeditions signed

JOHNSTON, ALEXA

Octavo softcover (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. All online listings are held in Dunedin

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2006

KEYWORDS: biographies memoir Sir Edmund Hillary New Zealanders mountaineers

HILLARY, Sir EDMUND

FIRST EDITION; SIGNED BY AUTHOR (HIS EARLY STYLE OF SIGNATURE, CONTEMPORARY TO PUBLICATION); Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 255pp, illus: maps, diagrams & photo plates, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light adhesion soiling to eps, light foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (a few small spots of heavy soiling, light rubbing, creasing & tanning, price-clipped)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1961

KEYWORDS: signed first editions memoirs autobiography autobiographies exploration expeditions travel writing new zealand antarctica polar transantarctic sir edmund hillary illustrated

HILLARY, EDMUND & SPARK, A (Maps) & DJURKOUIC, GEORGE (Sketches)

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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.

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1955

KEYWORDS: first editions adventure history mountaineering mountain climbing expeditions Mt Mount Everest autobiography Sir Edmund Hillary