Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (First UK Edition, Signed)

Greg Child’s first book, a collection of Himalayan and Karakoram encounters, in its UK first edition with a foreword by Doug Scott and signed by the author.

Child (b. 1957) is an Australian-born climber, writer and photographer whose big-wall routes in Yosemite and ascents in the Karakoram, including the 1986 northwest ridge of Gasherbrum IV with Tim Macartney-Snape and Tom Hargis, set the background to Thin Air. He had won the American Alpine Club’s Literary Award in 1987 for his magazine writing. Doug Scott contributes the foreword. Thin Air later appeared from the Mountaineers in a paperback, and Child went on to Mixed Emotions (1993) and Postcards from the Ledge (1998), which won the National Outdoor Book Award. This copy is signed and carries two flyers for seminars Child gave.

First edition (the first UK edition, preceding the American edition from Peregrine Smith), signed by the author to the title in black ink. Octavo. 192pp., with colour photographic plates throughout. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket, unclipped (£12.95). Very good in like dust jacket. The jacket has some small spots of foxing to the outer faces. The volume is a little foxed to the endpapers, otherwise clean and bright throughout. W. Williams ownership stamp in purple ink to the lower front free endpaper. Two flyers for seminars hosted by Child are loosely inserted.

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Catalogue Number: HH000881