Author: Bates, Robert H. & Richard Burdsall & Charles Houston & Paul Petzoldt
Title: Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition
Description: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. Hardcover. 319 pages, 34 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. This book is SIGNED directly on the short title page by Robert H. Bates, one of the authors of this book. In two hands - To Nicholas Duff on the occasion of having climbed a certain summit - June 5 1944 - Congratulations Henry T Kingman; below in Bates hand Best of luck Nicholas - Robert H. Bates June 10 1942. Needs some research. Book tight and clean though without d/w and spine faded as usual but some light damage to the adjacent plates on pages 146/7 which have at one time been partially stuck together. See scans. No other marks or signatures. . Very Good

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