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Ɵ NOYCE, Wifrid. (1917 - 1962). Six Works: first editions, four SIGNED by the author, includes two presentation copies, 1947-1962. comprises: Mountains and Men. Presentation copy. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 160mm), publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, INSCRIBED by the author to Geoffrey L. Bartman on front free e/p., frontispiece, 14 b/w. photographic plates, 4 maps, 160pp: The Gods are Angry. SIGNED. Heinemann, 1957. first edition, 8vo., (200 x 140mm), publisher's navy blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Richard Taylor previous ownership name to map illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by the author to title page, 198pp: Poems. Presentation copy. Heinemann. 1960. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's pale green cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, INSCRIBED by the author to front free e/p., 'To Alf Bridge / great mountaineer and / great friend / that courage of mine / bring to friends courage to, as they brought it to me', further SIGNED to the half-title by fellow mountaineer Alf Bridge, 98pp: To the Unknown Mountain. Ascent of an Unexplored Twenty-Five Thousander in the Karakoram. SIGNED. Heinemann, 1962. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Graham Bishop, SIGNED by the author to front free e/p., half-title, 20 b/w. photographic plates, 3 maps, 183pp: an account of the Anglo-American 1960 Expedition led by the author, containing D. Whillan's Solo by Motor-Bicycle from Rawlpindi to Lancashire as Appendix A: The Alps: With Descriptive Essays by Karl Lukan. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. first edition, large 4to. (290 x 240mm), publisher's grey gilt decorated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, peach e/ps., 230 b/w. photo. illustrations, 6 maps, 312pp: They Survived: A Study of the Will to Live. Heinemann. 1962. first edition, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Sheila Perry, 18 b/w. photo. illustrations, 5 maps and plans, 202pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. Wifrid Noyce was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Everest expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest. Noyce and Sherpa Annullu (the younger brother of Da Tensing) were the first members of the expedition to reach Everest's South Col on 21 May, 1953. Wilfrid Noyce climbed up to the South Col a second time on 29 May, (the day of the successful first ascent) when he, Sherpa Pasang Phutar, and George Lowe met the successful summit team of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay at the Col, giving the tired climbers drinks and congratulations. (6)