Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1954. First edition. Signed by Edmund Hillary on front free endpaper. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over pictorial cloth, stamped in white; in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket, wear along top and bottom edges, repaired tears on rear panel, dampstaining in top edge of same, unevenly toned; contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper.

Lot also includes: photo of Hillary, signed by him; framed with a commemorative 20th anniversary summit of Everest nickel coin. Also includes a limited edition commemorative print ("Everest Hillary's View From Everest, Looking East Towards Darjeeling"; #202/750 numbered copies), signed by Hillary in pencil, in frame; Five Dollar New Zealand banknote, printed with Hillary's image, and signed by him in pencil.

A fine group of four items all signed by the first person to summit Mt. Everest.