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"With Lasting Gratitude For All You Taught Me, And For Planting The Seeds Of My Literary Career": Into Thin Air; Lengthily Inscribed by Jon Krakauer
KRAKAUER, JON.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.
New York: Villard 1997.
First edition, early printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers by Anita Karl, illustrations by Randy Rackliff. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his teacher on the half-title page, “For Loretta Smith- With Lasting Gratitude For All You Taught Me, And For Planting The Seeds Of My Literary Career. Thanks, Jon Krakauer.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144146
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First Edition of Jon Krakauer's Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
KRAKAUER, JON.
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains.
New York: Lyons & Burford Publishers 1990.
First edition of Krakauer’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Deborah- Stay loose, Climb hard! Congratulations on climbing Denali. You did better than I. Jon Krakauer October 1990. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Shaw. Jacket cover photograph by Jon Krakauer. Jacket back cover by Marc Twight.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 84655