Smythe, Francis Sydney

FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 66 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo (253 x 160mm.), [2], xiv, 322pp., 2 maps, one folding, one in the text, 16 mounted coloured photographic plates, original white buckram, light blue endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, slipcase

Yakushi (1994) S626

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Smythe and his companions first came across this remarkable high-altitude valley when they became lost following their ascent of Kamet (see lot 1177). The present work recounts the author’s return there in 1937.