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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 334. Illustrated by line drawings and color and black and white photographs. Red cloth boards over black paper boards with gilt iceaxe to front and gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities; sunning to top of spine. Small areas of tape damage to front and rear boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. The true, "incredibly dramatic & heroic story of the Third American Karakoram Expedition that challenged the second highest mountain in the world, the dreaded K2, in the summer of 1953."