EVEREST: THE UNFINISHED ADVENTURE by HUGH RUTTLEDGE - 1937

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Paperback / softback. New.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1937. Large octavo, library cloth binding, two colour folding maps, b&w illus, pp 295 plus plate section (63 b&w plates plus text on facing page.) Ex-library with usual markings, otherwise in very good condition. Describes the 1936 Everest expedition, led by the author. 1st edition. Boards.

Paperback / softback. New.

Moran Press, 2011. Paperback. New. 264 pages. 8.43x5.51x0.71 inches.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 4to. original blue cloth gilt (ex-City of Kew Public Library in worn boards, spine replaced with tape, RSMs, label, pocket etc. to outer leaves, scattered spotting and marks, hinges tape strengthened; front panel of dustwrapper mounted to upper board); pp. [xvi], 296 (last blank), with 63 plates, 13 pencil sketches & 2 colour folding maps (one slightly misfolded with short splits (tape repaired)). Heavy item (1.75 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A reading copy. [Neate R100].. First Edition. Hard Cover. G-/No Jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 4to. original blue cloth gilt (ex-library with label stubs to front endpapers, cloth worn at extremities with fraying to spine ends & splitting along hinges, water marking to lower board, some leaves torn, but only loss of text to p.289/290 (Index), one folding map torn and loosely enclosed, but complete); pp. [xvi], 296 (last blank), with 63 plates, 13 pencil sketches & 2 colour folding maps. A reading copy in original cloth. [Neate R100].. First Edition. Hard Cover. G-/No Jacket.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. Blue cloth, gilt titles, in mylar protected dust-jacket, (10.25 x 7.5 inches). First Edition/First Printing. [xvi], 295 [1] pages; illustrated with 63 plates, 13 pencil sketches & 2 colour folding maps. Laid-in is original receipt from Cecil Woolf, Bookseller (dated 1953 and signed by Cecil Woolf). Woolf was the nephew of Virginia Woolf. Scattered foxing at prelims, general wear, jacket worn and chipped with loss at head and significant open tear on rear jacket panel. Remains a desirable copy in the scarce origninal jacket. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. Quarto.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Bright copy of Hugh Ruttledge's personal account of the incompleted second British Everest Expedition; the ascent was stopped by an early monsoon. The volume in three parts, the first is composed of recollections, while Part II is comprised of detailed observations on health, physiology, collecting flora & fauna, etc.; Part III is a wonderful photographic portfolio. Royal 8vo, 288 pp, two fold-out maps at rear, one in color, with 63 photographic plates at the rear. 7 pages of portraits of members of the expedition, from the original pencil sketches by P.R. Oliver. Original blue cloth with gilt titles at spine. Mostly bright, with spine lightly sunned, still a bright, clean copy.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 4to. plain blue cloth library binding, handwritten titling & cat. no. to spine (cloth a little rubbed, corners of a few leaves damaged by silverfish, labels to rear endpapers, occ. rsms, else internally clean); pp. [xvi], 296 (last blank), with 63 plates, 13 pencil sketches & 2 colour folding maps (one torn without loss). A good copy. [Neate R100].. First Edition. Hard Cover. G/No Jacket.