Ocean Sky by Hillary Edmund, Signed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Dustcover different from that shown, small tear upper front edge near spine, inside flap has small crease upper tip, mild upper edgewear to dc; Signed by author, very light wear to gray hardboards with bright gilt embossing on spine, clean, no other markings; 9.1 X 5.7 X 1.2 inches; 273 pages; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Third Printing. VG+/VG. 8vo. original canvas backed boards gilt (a little rubbed & marked, inscrip., prev. owner's name to FFE) in dustwrapper priced $12.95 (a trifle rubbed & nicked, a little marked on reverse); pp. 272, with 47 monochrome illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, 9 maps & diagrams + endpaper map. A very good copy. [Neate H80: 1500 mile adventure up the Ganges to climb Akash Parbat and Nar Parbat]. Flatsigned to FFE by expedition team member and son of the author, 'Peter Hillary'. Signed by A Member of the Expedition Team.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards titled in silver gilt, map endpages. First edition. Signed to the title page by Hillary. Ex-private library copy with bookplate and small sticker to title page; no other library markings. DJ blurbs neatly pasted to half title and opposite page. Slight sunning to boards. Tight and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 273 pages; Signed by Author.

1/4 Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First US Edition; First Printing. A bright first American edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition, lightly bumped tips, spine a little soiled in alike dust-jacket. Laid in errata slip. With the late signature of author Sir Edmund Hillary directly on the title page; A rich and intimate encounter with the tiger of the Sunderbans, with Hindu holy men and Sikh pilgrims, with rural Bengali villagers and hysterical Calcutta crowds. At every teeming city ghat and wharf, at each remote refueling stop, the people of India - fishermen, city dignitaries, village elders, excited school-children, ancient porters, yogis- all responded with an outpouring of warmth and enthusiasm to honor the Western travelers whose pilgrimage up the holy river symbolized so much for those along the banks; 8vo; [iv], [1-13], 14-273 [274] pages; Signed by Author.

Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 273pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. In 1977 Sir Edmund Hillary began an expedition to travel from the mouth of the Ganges River in the Bay of Bengal to its source in the Himalayan Mountains. A journey of some 1500 miles.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. An attractive Fine first UK edition/first printing, signed by author Edmund Hillary directly on the title page in Near Fine dustjacket exhibiting little sunning and chipping around edges; Hillary's encounter with the tiger of the Sunderbans, Hindu holy men and Sikh pilgrims, with rural Bengali villagers and hysterical Calcutta crowds. At every teeming city ghat and wharf, at each remote refueling stop, the people of India - fishermen, city dignitaries, village elders, excited school-children, ancient porters, yogis- all responded with an outpouring of warmth and enthusiasm to honor the pilgrimage of the Western travelers ; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A scarce first U. S. edition, SIGNED by author Edmund Hillary on title page, includes original errata slip regarding pages 80, 112, and 113. Book and dust jacket in Fine condition, with price unclipped; A rich and intimate encounter with the tiger of the Sunderbans, with Hindu holy men and Sikh pilgrims, with rural Bengali villagers and hysterical Calcutta crowds. At every teeming city ghat and wharf, at each remote refueling stop, the people of India - fishermen, city dignitaries, village elders, excited school-children, ancient porters, yogis- all responded with an outpouring of warmth and enthusiasm to honor the Western travelers whose pilgrimage up the holy river symbolized so much for those along the banks; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. F-/VG. 8vo. original grey rexine gilt (a few leaf edge spots) in export dustwrapper (a little rubbed & frayed, orange lettering on spine slightly sunned, upper flap creased); pp. 272, with 47 monochrome illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, 9 maps & diagrams + endpaper map. A very good copy. [Neate H80: 1500 mile adventure up the Ganges to climb Akash Parbat and Nar Parbat]. Clipped signature 'E.P.Hillary', tipped to title page. Signed by Author.

First Edition. DW. SIGNED Presentation Copy from the author "To Jane Ed Hillary Feb 17th 1979". Illustrated in colour and black and white. Corners bumped. Contents clean and fresh. Wrapper spine sunned, chipped and worn at extremites with closed tears and lacking small portions from top edges o/w VG+/Good. ISBN: 0340224606.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed ''With best wishes Ed Hillary'' on the title page. The book has small amounts of foxing to the prelims and page edges. The jacket has repairs to two short closed tears and small amounts of lamination loss at the head and foot of the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 2nd Impression. 272 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout and colour plates in the centre of the book. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Endpapers feature a map of the northeastern border of India. Page edge are lightly smudged. Bound in white hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. White dustjacket in very good condition with photographs and black and blue and orange titles. Worn around the edges with creases and tears. Price-clipped. Faded on the spine. 2nd Impression. VG+/VG-. Signed.

Condition: very good. 1st edition. 273pp. Octavo. Original bi-coloured cloth (blue/brown) with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial dustjacket. Maps on endpapers, vividly illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Tight, clean copy. Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary on the front-title. very good Detailing Sir. Edmund Hillary's 1500-mile-long adventure from "the Ganges River up-stream against the current as far as we could travel".

Condition: fine. 1st edition. 273pp. Octavo. Original bi-coloured cloth (blue/brown) with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial dustjacket. Maps on endpapers, vividly illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Tight, clean copy. Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary on the front-title. fine Detailing Sir. Edmund Hillary's 1500-mile-long adventure from "the Ganges River up-stream against the current as far as we could travel".