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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback in good condition- no jacket. Pages in good clean condition. Blue cloth board cover with black design. Inscription on front endpaper. Slight markings to cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Good. X library book with expected wear and markings.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Undated. the jacket is torn and worn. the jacket has been repaired with brown paper. chipped. marked. tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Red hard cover with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamp illustrations of wings on front cover - light wear/Good. 320 pages including many illustrations. Foreword by Sir Charles Portal. Illustrated end pages. Content Good+. No date. (726g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage is asked for when more than default price quoted. (WH).

Reprint edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 11-264; pictorial front endpapers, rear map endpapers; original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine; a good, sound, and clean copy. Yakushi F40a: "Account of the first flight over Everest sponsored by Lady Houston in 1933.".

Cloth. Zustand: Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None. Reprint. With a foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps. Navy cloth, red titles to spine. Reprint in same month as first edition. 279 pages. Colour fading to covers with some wear to extremities of spine. Complete with spectacles to view anaglyph between pages 222 and 223. . ("Anaglyph will appear in stereoscopic relief when it is seen through the viewing spectacles contained inside the back cover of this book.") Ownership decorative initial "P" and other ownership details in copperplate on front endpaper.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 279; port. frontis. of Lady Houston, 64 photo. illusts. including "An Anaglyph from Vertical Photographs Taken Over Everest. Made to Appear in Stereoscopic Relief" (with accompanying 3-D spectacles in pocket at rear), 3 double-page photo. panoramas, maps inc. 2 folding, one folding table; very good in the navy cloth, lettered in red, in original d.-w., which is worn with some loss to head of spine with, loosely inserted, a letter from expedition member L. V. S. Blacker relating to the production in 1950 of a map of the Everest region. The first, and successful, flight over Everest using two Westland P.V. 3 aircraft. The superb images were later to provide information for the successful southern approach to and ascent of Everest in 1953. This copy contains a letter from expedition member L. V. Stewart Blacker to Ian Mumford, then at the Cartographic Department of the RGS, who at this time was working with Michael Ward to produce a map of the southern approaches to Mount Everest, based on photographs taken on Blacker's flight over Everest. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 by Air Commodore P. F. M. FELLOWES. Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1934, First Edition, 5th impresssion. Very good hardback, no jacket. Comes with original 3D spectacles (for viewing anaglyph plate p222) in rear pocket. Cloth boards are faded, rubbed, marked, and bumped. Small tear to cloth at top of spine. Signature in pencil, inside front board. Binding firm, pages very good with a little foxing. 279 pages with photos and illustrations. Fold out maps and diagrams, tissue overlays to p32, and p58 all in very good condition. The first Mount Everest flight expedition was undertaken by Sir Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and David McIntyre in April 1933. They took off on an open cabin flight at 8:25 am on 3 April from Lalbalu Airfield and returned at 11:30 marking it as the first successful flight over Everest. The first expedition could not obtain clear photographs because of dust. They made another attempt on April 19, 1933, the pictures of which assisted Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the top of Mount Everest.

First edition in publisher's white paper printed stapled tabloid 13" x 9". New short stories and articles by: H. E. Bates - Book Review 'The Bathysphere'; Anthony Blunt 'Russian Art'; Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes 'The Monster of the Air'; A. S. J. Tessimond 'Two Poems'; Sir Evelyn Wrench 'In Rhineland - A New Outlook'; Graham Greene 'England Made Me' by William Plomer. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

Leinenband. Zustand: Gut. 279 S., Gr.8°, Ln., Rücken gebleicht.

Third printing. ( There were three printings in December 1933. ) 8vo. ( 240mm. ) Pp. xix,279. Top edge with a blue wash. Plates [57] illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps ( some folding ) . Complete with the 3D glasses, in the lower pastedown pocket, for viewing the Anaglyph on page 222. A very clean copy. Blue cloth backed boards with the aeroplane illustration in blind on the upper cover, spine lettered in red. The dust jacket with chips and open tears. Neate F17.

Zustand: Fine. New York, March 29th and April 11th, 1934., 1934. Fine. - Two letters, the first dated "March 29th/34" is a 4 page letter "written from 1112 Park Avenue New York" with the return address of "22 Chester Street, London SW. 1" It consists of over 240 words penned on 4 sides of 6-1/2 inch high by 5-1/8 inch wide creamy white paper. In this first letter, Fellowes expresses his conviction that "I think I shall be able to get my colleagues to accept your offer of closing down the contract" for a series of lectures. As he will expect to make a profit, he states that he "would not come over unless you could let me know when you had been able to secure a fairly full list of engagements." He mentions that his wife would have to arrange for the expenses of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Blacker's wife. "We are both particularly anxious to visit the West Coast & if the majority of my engagements lay in that direction I should avoid circumscribing Blacker's [i.e. Lieut.-Col. Stewart Blacker] activities. I feel there is a great chance he may be coming over too." Signed "Peregrine Fellowes". The second letter, dated "April 11th/34" is a 5-1/2 page letter consisting of over 320 words penned on 6 sides of two 7 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide sheets of "Peover Hall, Over Peover, Cheshire" stationery. Following up with Pond, Fellowes writes that "We are now negotiating with Gaumont British to obtain a definite agreement as to our lecture rights over the main film." He informs Pond that his colleagues are agreeable to the terms and says that "Colonel Etherton [Colonel Percy T. Etherton] who is a very good & amusing lecturer would be willing to bring over some really excellent Indian short films of Nepal & Sikkim & lecture under your aegis for the whole season." He closes with a postscript stating that "Blacker won't be coming over until 1935 & has not yet definitely settled anything." Signed "Peregrine Fellowes". Both letters are in near fine condition and are offered together with Pond's 50-page illustrated brochure "Announcement of Attractions 1933.1934" for lectures under the aegis of the Pond Bureau. The brochure includes a full-page announcement of a lecture titled "The Mount Everest Flight. The official story of Man's Conquest by Air of the last of the world's unexplored areas, told by Air-Commodore P.F.M. Fellowes". Air Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes (1883-1955) led the expedition and planning for the first flight over Mount Everest in 1933. He co-authored, with Stewart Blacker and Percy Thomas Etherton, "First Over Everest! : The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933", published by John Lane in that year. Although Fellowes led the expedition, he did not actually fly in it except for his reconnaissance flights. The flights themselves were piloted by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (Lord Clydesdale) and David McIntyre with Stewart Blacker and Sidney Bonnett in the observer seats. As an airman, Peregrine Fellowes led a raid against the lock gates at Zeebrugge in the First World War during which he was wounded, crash landed in the North Sea and rescued by the Germans. He spent the remainder of the war as a POW. He later served in the Middle East and opened the first regular air route between Cairo and Baghdad. He was selected to lead the first Everest Air Expedition in 1933. Making use of specially designed Westland Wallaces, the expedition made the first successful flight over Mount Everest and, though Fellowes didn't fly himself, his organizational and diplomatic skills were crucial to the success of the challenging expedition. The main difficulties resided in keeping the crew alive in the low pressure and cold temperatures at this elevation. Fellowes and Stewart Blacker, who flew in one of the observer seats, obtained the necessary papers from the various governments, including those of India and Nepal. Tibet refused permission. They convinced the Royal Geographical Society that they'd provide valuable information for the subsequent 1933 British Mount Everest Expedition to the summit and also seek evidence as to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's disappearance during their 1924 climb. Requiring clear weather over the mountains, Fellows reconnoitered on a daily basis by flying a Puss Moth plane every morning for 9 days before conditions were found to be reasonably suitable. The expedition set milestones for development in aviation technology and photography. Though the aerial photographs were too late to assist the 1933 British climbers, they were later used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to plan their route to the top of Everest in 1953.