Book #12017

Two Generations

Edmund Hillary, Peter Hillary
Book #12017 Two Generations. Edmund Hillary, Peter Hillary.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984.
ISBN: 0340354208

A handsome first edition/first printing in Very Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with some minute soiling along the top edge, SIGNED by author Edmund Hillary directly onto the title page.

Hillary's frank and engaging biography, "written with good humour and total honesty by a father and son who do not always look eye to eye, but share a zest for adventure which they communicate unstintingly" (from the dust-jacket); 8vo; Signed by Author.

Price: $130.00

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Author Bio

Hillary, Edmund

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (July 20, 1919 - Jan., 11 2008), New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On May 29, 1953, he and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.

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