Item #160426 ANNAPURNA. Maurice Herzog.
ANNAPURNA.

ANNAPURNA.

First Conquest of an 8000-metre Peak [26,493 feet]. Translated from the French by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith. Cartographic and Photographic Documentation by Marcel Ichac. With an Introduction by Eric Shipton. Pp. [ii]+316, coloured frontispiece and 2 plates (one double page), plus 24 monochrome plates, folding panorama of The Great Barrier at end, text illustrations and maps, glossary, list of routes; demy 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, light blue cloth boards, with publisher's device in blind near bottom fore-corner of upper board, edges of boards faded; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges worn and torn, with several tape repairs on reverse, front panel slightly damp stained at fore-edge; name stamp above different owner's inked signature on upper free endpaper; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1953. U.S. edition, fifth printing. *The author was the leader of the 1950 French Himalayan Expedition, the first to scale an 8000 metre peak. Item #160426

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