EVEREST EXPEDITION 1953: A hardback edition of The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt, First Edition published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1953, featuring two 12mo signed pieces neatly laid down to the front free endpaper and bearing the signatures of eleven members of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1953 including Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Alfred Gregory, Michael Ward, Tom Stobart, Michael Westmacott, George Lowe, Griffith Pugh, Charles Wylie, George Band and one other. All have signed in fountain pen inks with their names alone. With an ownership signature, address and inscription opposite dated 28th December 1953. Lacking the dust jacket and with some wear and staining to the blue cloth boards. Together with three pieces of related printed ephemera including two invitations, one to a ceremony for the presentation of a special medal by the President of India to Hunt, Hillary and Norgay, 29th June 1953, and an English translation of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's speech made on the same occasion. Some light overall age wear, minor stains and small tears etc., G, 4