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Lot 233
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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WORKMAN, Fanny Bullock (1859-1925); WORKMAN, William Hunter (1847-1937). In the Ice World of Himalaya. Among the Peaks and Passes of La
8vo. With 2 photogravure portraits of the authors, 3 color-printed folding maps & 65 half-tones. (Tear repaired on verso to folding map.) Original publisher's decorated green cloth gilt (spine darkened). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, describing the Workmans' first mountaineering expedition, with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to "My dear Arthur" laid in, 27 October 1909, 1 page, 8vo, on Hotel St. Andrew, New York stationery. Regarding an upcoming gathering, and requesting a room not facing the stables owing to his "asthmatic proclivities." Neate W124.

