Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer. Stated first edition, third printing. New York: Villard, 1997. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert and illustrations by Randy Rackliff. No writing or markings found in the book, 291 pp.    Best-selling personal account of the ill-fated 1996 climb of Mt. Everest by the author of Into the Wild. "This is a great book, among the best ever on mountaineering. Gracefully and efficiently written, carefully researched, and actually lived by its narrator, it shares a similar theme with another sort of book, a novel called The Great Gatsby" (The Washington Post).