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Lot #420
Edmund Hillary and John Hunt Signed Book with Original Artwork by Dick Locher

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Signed book: The Conquest of Everest. First edition. NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1954. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 300 pages. Signed on the opening page in black ballpoint, “Ed Hillary” and “John Hunt,” which bears marvelous original artwork by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Dick Locher, who draws a mountaineer posing on the shoulder of a massive snow-covered mountain, accomplished in graphite, ink, and felt tip, signed below, “Richard Locher, April 13th Tues., 1954.” In fine condition.

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