The Abominable Snowman Adventure.

First edition of Izzard's account of the yeti expedition. Izzard set out to pursue Hillary's 1953 Everest expedition to base camp without a map or a compass. Once the nine-man crew reached base camp, they split up to try to uncover whether there was any truth to the mythology of the Yeti. Neate, p. 118. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece, 30 half-tone plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green map endpapers. With dust jacket. Ownership stamp of "John Leng" to title page, p. 38, p. 138, and p. 238, later pencil markings to text. Some marks to cloth, spine ends bumped, remnants of label to spine and opposite half-title; jacket unclipped, toned, spine ends creased, nick to front panel, remnants of library label to spine, several tape repairs to reverse of jacket: a good copy in like jacket.