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Lot Is Closed HUNT, SIR JOHN [Beekeeper’s bookplate] [2 titles], The Ascent of Everest.
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HUNT, SIR JOHN [Beekeeper’s bookplate] [2 titles], The Ascent of Everest.
Starting Bid: $150
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HUNT, SIR JOHN [Beekeeper’s bookplate] [2 titles]
The Ascent of Everest.
London: H & S 1953. 299p, illustrated225mm, blue cloth, gilt titles, light edge wear, DJ clipped. VG copy. With the bookplate on fly leaf 'Everest 1953. To Sir Edmund Hillary from Fellow Beekeepers in Appreciation', inscribed on same page ‘Book Plate designed by Ronald D. Simpson for the British Beekeepers Association’ and signed by Hubert Simpson. 2. Sir John Hunt - The Ascent of Everest. London: H & S 2003, 50th Anniversary edition of 1,000 copies. 280p, illustrated, 240mm, DJ and in slip case. Fine copy.