SIGNED by Maurice Herzog on the ''half title page''.
Paris, 1951, 1st edition. 300 pp, 32 plates, 3 maps, 1 fold-out with panoramic photo. In French. Softcover. Near Fine.
My question is, how did this fragile paperback survive seventy-one years, to get signed about twenty years ago, and then finally go to a collector in the new century?
Story of the epic of the conquest of Annapurna, first summit of more than 8000 meters climbed by man.