Ascent Man, Signed (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; iii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title ; ISBN 9780393239348, 0393239349 ; OCLC 1005112551 ; LCCN 2018003419 ; LOC No DS461.9.N8 L35 2018 ; yellow-gold and black cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; Contents: Note on transliteration and terminology -- Dramatis personae -- Queen of queens, an introduction -- Miracle girl -- Al-hind -- The cupolas of chastity and the perfect man -- The wak-wak tree -- The mirror of happiness -- Grave matters -- A key for closed doors -- Ascent -- Wonder of the age -- Veils of light -- The light-scattering garden -- Fitna -- The rescue -- Angel of death -- Beyond 1627, an epilogue. ; A Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents' mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson's Taj Mahal. And she was both celebrated and reviled for her political acumen and diplomatic skill, which rivaled those of her female counterparts in Europe and beyond. In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. While other wives were secluded behind walls, Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, and governed in his stead as his health failed and his attentions wandered from matters of state. An astute politician and devoted partner, Nur led troops into battle to free Jahangir when he was imprisoned by one of his own officers. She signed and issued imperial orders, and coins of the realm bore her name. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist cliches of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire, even where scholars claim there are no sources. Nur's confident assertion of authority and talent is revelatory. In Empress, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history. -- Source: Publisher ; Ruby Lal is an acclaimed historian of India and a professor of South Asian History at Emory University. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, and Coming of Age in Nineteenth Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. She divides her time between Atlanta and Delhi. ; underlining throughout ; G/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. A.J.Veilhan (illustrator). Reprint. VG+/VG. 8vo. original black cloth gilt (prev. owner's name and inscrip. to FFE, slightly rubbed) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & frayed, discreet tape repair); pp. xx, 250 (last blank), with colour frontispiece, 48 black & white plates & 5 maps. A very good copy. [Neate N40: Noyce's work on the Lhotse face opened the way to the South Col. One of the best personal accounts of an Everest expedition]. Flatsigned on title page 'Alfred Gregory', who supplied many of the fine photographs from the expedition. Signed by a Team Member.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Seventh Printing. Little, Brown and Company, 1973, 7th printing, 8vo., 448 pages, numerous illustrations and photos. Book is inscribed and signed to Larry Hughes on front endpage. This book is part of a larger collection of books all signed by the authors and inscribed to Larry Hughes. Although in this case the author just uses Larry Hughes first name. Larry Hughes was Chairman of the Board of the Hearst Trade Group and also President & CEO of William Morrow, a very influential figure in book publishing. Book and jacket in very good+ condition. Inscription reads; "My Dear Larry, It has been a wonderful ten years working with you and for the House of William Morrow. And I can't tell you how much I look forward to being with you and Morrow in the decades ahead. We're gonna knock them out of the box!". Jacket price clipped, else book and jacket in very good+ condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 303; 4 coloured plates, b & w illusts. from drawings and photos., 5 sketch maps; browning to half-title and at rear, else very good in original cloth, d.-w. with, loosely inserted, a printed invitation to a book-signing by Noyce at W. H. Smith in Dorking, signed by Noyce. Noyce's account of his ascent of Everest's South Col, by which he prepared the way for the successful first ascent, has been described as "One of the best personal accounts of an Everest Expedition" (Neate). Signed by Author(s).

VG in orig. cloth. Spine dull, corners and edges lightly creased. [balance of title] based chiefly on the relics of his artistic work in prehistoric times. With 16 plates in colour [pl. 9 detached, trimmed and marked: not affecting the vases] and 482 illustrations in black and white. xxx, 548 p., with fold. map at end. Signed by author, facing title-page. 1st edition. Binding is Hardback.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. A.J.Veilhan (illustrator). First Edition. VG/VG. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (fore-edge and outer leaves a little spotted) in dustwrapper (some browning to spine, slight fraying to spine ends); pp. xx, 304 (last blank), with 4 colour plates, 48 black & white plates, 5 maps & 16 drawings. A very good copy. [Neate N40: Noyce's work on the Lhotse face opened the way to the South Col. One of the best personal accounts of an Everest expedition]. Flatsigned on half-title 'Alfred Gregory', who supplied many of the fine photographs from the expedition. Signed by a Team Member.

First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Signed by 1953 Mount Everest British expedition member George Band on the title page. George Christopher Band George was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. From the library of mountaineer and author Richard Sale with his signed bookplate opposite the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket. On May 21, 1953 Noyce and the Sherpa Annullu (the younger brother of Da Tensing) were the first members of the expedition to reach Everest's South Col, after what Noyce said was "one of the most enjoyable days' mountaineering I've ever had". They left Camp VII at 9.30 am, both using oxygen; according to Noyce, "I had told Anullu that we would not start too early, for fear of frostbite." Several hours later they reached the highest point attained by the British expedition to date: "an aluminium piton with a great coil of thick rope" left by George Lowe and party. The climbers in the camps below, according to Hunt, were watching their progress on this vital part of the climb; by early afternoon "their speed had noticeably increased and our excitement soon grew to amazement when it dawned on us that Noyce and Annullu were heading for the South Col itself". Not long after Hunt made that observation, they reached the Col. It was 2.40 p.m. Wilfrid Noyce and his companion Annullu stood at that moment above the South Col of Everest, at about 26,000 feet. They were gazing down on the scene of the Swiss drama, and they were also looking upwards to the final pyramid of Everest itself. It was a great moment for them both, and it was shared by all of us who watched it. Their presence there was symbolic of our success in overcoming the most crucial problem of the whole climb; they had reached an objective which we had been striving to attain for twelve anxious days. In a passage in South Col, Noyce's book of the expedition published the following year, he gives an account of the scene that greeted him at the Col: "We were on a summit, overlooked in this whole scene only by Lhotse and Everest. And this was the scene long dreamed, long hoped for. To the right and above, the crenellations of Lhotse cut a blue sky fringed with snow cloudlets. To the left, snow mist still held Everest mysteriously. But the eye wandered hungry and fascinated over the plateau between; a space of boulders and bare ice perhaps four hundred yards square, absurdly solid and comforting at first glance in contrast with the sweeping ridges around, or the blank mist that masked the Tibetan hills beyond. But across it a noisy little wind moaned its warning that the South Col, goal of so many days' ambition, was not comfortable at all. And in among the glinting ice and dirty grey boulders there lay some yellow tatters â" all that remained of the Swiss expedition of last year.".

Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xx, 303. 4 colour photographic plates including frontispiece, 49 monochrome photographic plates of which several multi-image, 5 maps and 16 drawings by A J Veilhan. Publishers' blue cloth with gilt titles and ruling to spine; top edge stained blue; pictorial endpapers. Unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Veilhan. Author's signature below vignette to title page in blue ink, without dedication. Spine tips a little creased; cover cloth slightly discoloured lower edge. Small unobtrusive ownership inscription to half-title; Contents clean. Jacket slightly nicked & creased top edge with a little minor wear. A Very Good copy in like jacket. First-hand account of the first ascent of Everest by lead climber Wilfrid Noyce, the first member of the expedition to reach the South Col; poems written by the Author during the expedition are included, and many of the photographs are also his work. Signed copies are rare; Noyce was tragically killed in a climbing accident in 1962.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Heinemann, London, UK, 1954. First edition. Original cloth gilt. Dustwrapper. Size: 15.2cm x 22.3cm. pp. 303. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Noyce was the first member of the 1953 Everest Expedition to accomplish the ascent of the South Col, the small plateau just beneath the summit, from which the successful party subsequently set out. Arguably the best account of the expedition. Flat signed by Noyce to the title page. Binding nice and tight but very slightly faded. Occasional slight foxing. A very good indeed, tight, clean copy in very good, slightly nicked, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. A. J. Veilhan (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.5 in., pp. xx + 303. Illustrated with four color plates, forty-eight photographic plates, sixteen ink drawings by A.J. Veilhan, and five maps. Signed on half title page by four members of the 1953 Everest expedition: George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Evans, and George Band. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Publisher's blue topstain. Light age-toning to pages. Previous owner's inscription to half title. Light rubbing to edges. Very light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. Unique edition with four signatures from members of the 1953 Everest expedition. Wilfrid Noyce "has written here a superb cvomplement to Sir John Hunt's official narative of the that historic achievement (of being first to ascend Mt. Everest). For this book gives what no official narrative can possibly give - a record of the thousand-and-one physical and mental sensations that crowded in upon one highly sensitive person, who is both a climber and a writer, in the course of this adventure. With this personal approach the reader shares vividly in a unique experience." (from the dustjacket) The book includes nine poems written by the author during the expedition. Many consider this the best first-hand written story of the first ascent of Everest. Wilfrid Francis Noyce (31 December 1917 - 24 July 1962) (usually known as Wilfrid Noyce (often misspelt as 'Wilfred'), some sources give third forename as Frank) was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest. Edmund Hillary, meeting Noyce for the first time as the expedition assembled in Nepal, echoed Hunt's praise: "Wilf Noyce was a tough and experienced mountaineer with an impressive record of difficult and dangerous climbs. In many respects I considered Noyce the most competent British climber I had met" Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Signed.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's dark blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine and illustrated end-papers of the Everest mountaineers. 4 colour photographic plates including frontispiece, 49 monochrome photographic plates of which several multi-image, 5 maps and 16 drawings by A J Veilhan. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. A VG+ copy in a VG D/W with a slightly darkened spine which is nicked at the head and tail and with a short closed tear (and associated crease) at the top right hand edge of the back panel. Signed by the Author in red biro on the title page. Wilfrid Noyce tragically died following a mountaineering accident in 1962. Signed copies of South Col are particularly uncommon in our experience. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

First edition thus. 8vo. 447 pp. Illustrations. Signed by Rita Bronowski. Hardcover binding in dustwrapper, ex-library, overall very good condition. (99830). Signed: Shalom / Rita Bronowski / . 80 . Text in Hebrew.

First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Association copy, signed by Noyce on the title page and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to Susan Hunt, "Susan Hunt, Specially - We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject. Rosemary & Wilf Jan 1955." The recipient, Susan Hunt, was the daughter of Sir John Hunt, the leader of the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. Susan Hunt married New Zealand-born mountaineer George Lowe, a member of the 1953 expedition, in 1962. During the expedition, Lowe prepared the route from the head of the Western Cwm up the Lhotse Face towards the South Col. He was a member of the support party for Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay's summit attempt and the day before the successful summit, with Alfred Gregory and Sherpa Ang Nyima, descended to the South Col to await Hillary and Norgay's descent. Upon their meeting, Hillary delivered his infamous greeting: "Well, George, we knocked the bastard off." With Lowe's bookplate to the pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association copy. On May 21, 1953 Noyce and the Sherpa Annullu (the younger brother of Da Tensing) were the first members of the expedition to reach Everest's South Col, after what Noyce said was "one of the most enjoyable days' mountaineering I've ever had". They left Camp VII at 9.30 am, both using oxygen; according to Noyce, "I had told Anullu that we would not start too early, for fear of frostbite." Several hours later they reached the highest point attained by the British expedition to date: "an aluminium piton with a great coil of thick rope" left by George Lowe and party. The climbers in the camps below, according to Hunt, were watching their progress on this vital part of the climb; by early afternoon "their speed had noticeably increased and our excitement soon grew to amazement when it dawned on us that Noyce and Annullu were heading for the South Col itself". Not long after Hunt made that observation, they reached the Col. It was 2.40 p.m. Wilfrid Noyce and his companion Annullu stood at that moment above the South Col of Everest, at about 26,000 feet. They were gazing down on the scene of the Swiss drama, and they were also looking upwards to the final pyramid of Everest itself. It was a great moment for them both, and it was shared by all of us who watched it. Their presence there was symbolic of our success in overcoming the most crucial problem of the whole climb; they had reached an objective which we had been striving to attain for twelve anxious days. In a passage in South Col, Noyce's book of the expedition published the following year, he gives an account of the scene that greeted him at the Col: "We were on a summit, overlooked in this whole scene only by Lhotse and Everest. And this was the scene long dreamed, long hoped for. To the right and above, the crenellations of Lhotse cut a blue sky fringed with snow cloudlets. To the left, snow mist still held Everest mysteriously. But the eye wandered hungry and fascinated over the plateau between; a space of boulders and bare ice perhaps four hundred yards square, absurdly solid and comforting at first glance in contrast with the sweeping ridges around, or the blank mist that masked the Tibetan hills beyond. But across it a noisy little wind moaned its warning that the South Col, goal of so many days' ambition, was not comfortable at all. And in among the glinting ice and dirty grey boulders there lay some yellow tatters â" all that remained of the Swiss expedition of last year.".

A first edition, first printing of 'The Ascent of Man' by J. Bronowski, published by BBC books in 1973. A very good book. No inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with the usual fading to the spine, with wear to the spine tips and corners and a small snag to the front panel. SIGNED without dedication to the front endpaper, 'J. Bronowski/5 November 1973/'. A sweeping exploration of human history through science, culture, and creativity. Adapted from his landmark television series, the book traces humanity's progress from early tool-making to modern physics, emphasising curiosity, imagination, and ethical responsibility. Bronowski argues that science is a deeply human endeavour, rooted in values such as honesty, tolerance, and doubt. Blending history, philosophy, and personal reflection, he presents knowledge as cumulative and fragile, warning that scientific power without moral awareness can lead to destruction rather than enlightenment. It remains influential for its clarity, humanism, and enduring defence of reason today.