Told Malcolm Barnes (2 results)

184 pp, b&w and coloured photographic plates, maps, fine copy in very good, pictorial, price-clipped d/j. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ] Hardback, octavo, appx 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (14.75 x 22.25 cm), VG+ in G+ dj (dj fitted with removable clear protective mylar sleeve). Book itself: snug binding, hinges intact, very clean & overall quite nice. DJ: clean, price corner notched out, surfaces incl spine very nice, chipping heel of spine and along lower edge back panel adjacent, lower corners chipped (not too badly), short closed tear (5/8ths inch) near top corner back panel, tiny closed tear near top corner front panel + very small nick on the spine fold with the front panel. Author has SIGNED and dated the half-title page: "Tenzing Norgay, 21/10/80". The book was gifted to an Elsa Lutz (who had been a military wife), gifted perhaps by her military husband who wrote above the author's signature: "To Mrs. Elsa T. Lutz". Elsa Lutz had been a Red Cross volunteer for 2 years during World War II in North Africa and Italy, had apparently lived all over the world and enjoyed world travel. Elsa Dorothea Thum Lutz died in Minneapolis in 2013, was born in Bayonne, N.J., graduated from Skidmore College in 1936, and her husband would have been Col. Thomas L. Lutz according to obituaries. RWR5 Mountain Climbing Adventure Sports Hobbies Recreation Signed. Signed by Author(s).