The Borders of the Impossible: From the Alps to Annapurna

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. 350 pages. Hardcover, in fine condition, bound in green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; the white jacket shows the author hanging from an almost horizontal section of rock. An uncommonly nice copy. Jacket is clean but price-clipped and has a quarter-inch closed tear at the bottom edge of the front spine fold. The reverse of the jacket (the side facing the book) has some brown discoloration, but none is visible on the outside. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #483

Originally published in Paris by Librairie Gallimard in 1961, under the title Les Conquerants de l'Inutile. Translated by Geoffrey Sutton, and first published in English by Victor Gollancz in 1963; this is the first American edition, 1964. Terray, also an accomplished photographer, some of whose photos illustrate this book, gives an account of his climbing career, which included the famous 1950 ascent of Annapurna with Maurice Herzog. Laid into the book is a 3 1/2-by-2-inch white card, with envelope, which says, "Hope you have a/speedy recovery/Lillian Paper"

Price: $75.00

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