Description
First edition, first printing. Published by Cassell in London, 1958. This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper, finely presented with pictorial illustrations of Antarctica is immaculate and very fine. Not price clipped. The boards, in the publisher’s cloth, are truly fine. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in fine condition.
With a tipped in presentation slip from The Trans-Antarctic Expedition, signed by Vivian Fuchs and dated 1988. On the facing page is a tipped in slip from Fuchs reading: ‘You may like to have the signature on a piece of the old expedition paper for your book V.S.F’. In addition, tipped in beneath the dedication to Her Majesty is a signed bookplate by Edmund Hillary (Ed Hillary).
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was the first to reach the geographical South Pole by land since Roald Amundsen.