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Ɵ HIMALAYAS: Annapurna and K2: Four Works: SIGNED. [French text]. 1951-1954. comprises: HERZOG, Maurice. (1919 - 2012). Annapurna Premier 8.000. SIGNED. B. Athaud, Paris and Grenoble, (1951). Collection Sempervivum 16., 8vo., (200 x 140mm), publisher's illustrated black cloth, design by Claude Arthaud, gilt lettering to spine, patterned e/ps., SiGNED by the author to half-title, preface by Lucien Devies (president of the French Alpine Club), French text, 32 heliogravure plates after Marcel Ichac, sketches, 3 maps (including folding map at end), 293pp: An account of the 1950 French Expedition conquest of Annapurna led by the author, Herzog reached the summit with Louis Lachenal: HERZOG, Maurice. (1919 -2012). and ICHAC, Marcel. (1906 - 1994). Regards vers L'Annapurna. SIGNED. B. Arthaud, Paris and Grenoble, (1951). 4to., (250 x 200mm), publisher's cream card covers, black lettering to front, photo. illustrated dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED by Maurice Herzog to half-title, ink stamped 'Neptune' top r.h corner of title page, preface by Lucien Devies, French text, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated after Marcel Ichac, Gaston Rebuffat, Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal, Jacques Oudot and Marcel Schatz, double-page map loosely inserted, 96pp; with a duplicate copy Regards vers L'Annapurna. SIGNED. B. Arthaud, (1951). second edition as stated, half leather and cloth, gilt lettering to spine, French text, SIGNED to half-title by Maurice Herzog, double-page map at end, 96pp: with HOUSTON, Charles S. (1913 - 2009) and BATES, R.H. (1911 - 2007) and BELL, G.I. (1926 - 2000) K2 8611M. SIGNED. Arthaud, Paris. (1954). first edition, 4to., (250 x 200mm), publisher's cream card covers, lettered in black to front and spine, French text, photo. illustrated dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, SIGNED to the title page by six members of the 1953 Third American Karokaram Expedition, including Charles Houston, Robert H. Bates Dee Molenaar, Peter Schoening, Robert Craig and Tony Streather, photo. illustrations after members of the expedition, lacks loosely inserted map, 100pp., each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4)