The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58
The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58
The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58

FUCHS, Sir Vivian, and Sir Edmund HILLARY. The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.

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FUCHS, Sir Vivian, and Sir Edmund HILLARY. The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58. London: Cassell. [1958].

8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in silver, map endpapers, illustrated wrappers retaining price; pp. [2], xvii, 337; coloured and black and white illustrations from photographs, including double-page size colour-printed title, 9 sketch maps; light fading and marginal rubbing to wrappers; a very good copy.

First edition, author's signature on a purpose-printed label pasted into dedication page. The wrapper reveals that this book was very expensive: 30 shillings net. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was the first to reach the geographical South Pole by land since Roald Amundsen.

Spence 490; Renard 567.

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