London: Macmillan, 1890. Octavo, original red cloth, spine gilt lettered, black endpapers. pp (xvi), 251, (1), (4, ads) + folding map at rear. 9 plates (frontispiece, which lacks the tissue guard, is included in the pagination), one vignette illustration. Complete. Ex library, lacking the to inch of spine, signs of removed label on spine; bookplate at front; rubber stamps on verso of front free endpaper, half-title, and title pages; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired with black paper; small chips and tears (no text affected) to margins of a few leaves from careless opening; in all, just fair externally, but text is VG, clean and unworn and the whole now tight in the binding. Lowther 878. Green, an Irish alpinist who had climbed in the Swiss Alps and New Zealand, was one of the first climbers of the Canadian Rockies, making first ascent of Mount Bonney in the Selkirks in 1888. He made his "rough survey" with only a railway map to guide him. This was the first book on the Canadian Rockies.

London: Thomas Nelson, 1936. Second edition, revised, issued a few weeks after the first. With tipperd in slip at title stating "Second Edition. With a Special Account of the 1936 Expedition. Sir Francis Younghusband has written for this edition an entirely new account of the 1936 attempt on Everest, with a detailed discussion ofr the problems which the Expedition has to face." Green cloth, endpaper maps. pp (x), 243, [3] + plates; 3 small maps in text and end, Index. Spine a bit darkened with two dark spots, small ink gift inscription at front, VG clean and unworn jacketless copy otherwise. Newspaper clippings laid in. A book from the days when an ascent of Everest was fraught with peril (it was not successfully surmounted until 1953). The 1936 British expedition was a complete flop. These days you have to get in the queue to go to the top.

New York: Harper, 1899. The title page continues: "With the government enquiry and report and other official documents by J. Larkin, Esq., deputed by the government of India. With 1 photogravure, 8 coloured plates, 50 full-page and about 150 text illustrations, and a map from surveys by the author." Two volumes, original publisher’s illustrated green cloth stamped in gilt, black, and reddish brown; gilt top page edges, others rough trimmed. 307, 250 pp, Tissue guards to the frontispieces. Folding map at the rear of volume II. Ex library: spines lightly darkened with a nick at head of each, call number on gold star sticker to lower spine; label to each front pastedown and pouch at rear of each; four digits rubber stamped to verso of each title leaf; otherwise a nice near fine pair, no other library marks. A minor classic of late-Victorian high adventure and exploration in the Himalayas, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings (most by the author himself), including eight color plates and a folding map of southwestern Tibet drawn from Landor’s surveys. Though he failed to reach Lhasa, Landor climbed as high as 22,000 feet and explored many places hitherto unseen by Europeans, making some significant geographical and anthropological discoveries in the process. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.

London: Seeley Service & Co, 1934. Original brown smooth buckram gilt lettered, brown top page edges. pp 383 + plates and 9 folding maps, indexed. 1936 ink name at front of noted Scottish Canadian climber, member of the Alpine Club of Canada "H[orace]. Westmorland", minor cover rubbing, partial cracks to front inner hinge neatly repaired; else a fine copy. Laid in are two long folded carbon copy typescripts on cheap paper signed at end in pencil "H.W." with manuscript notations in another hand, titled "Rock Pitches Near Halifax, N.S." Besides the editor, contributions by E. R. Blanchet, Olaf Bloch, P. Borchers, T. Graham Brown, E. J. Garwood, P. Wyn Harris, W. P. Haskett-Smith, Henry Hoek, G. N. Humphreys, T. G. Longstaff, C. F. Meade, H. E. L. Porter, W. Rickmer Rickmers, Hugh Roger-Smith, G. R. Speaker, J. Monroe Thorington, A. M. Wakefield, William West, Walter Weston, Claude Wilson, J. M. Wordie, and G. Winthrop Young. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Original dark green cloth gilt lettered, with photographic label on front cover. pp [2], x, (258), [2] + frontispiece with captioned tissue guard; 17 illustrations in text, many full-page, top edge gilt. Library discard, with black panel on spine; shadow of removed label on front and rear pastedown; small rubber stamp to front free endpaper and lower margin of page 73; ink notation on verso of title leaf; small chip to fore edge of front free endpaper; creases and short tear to inner margin of tissue guard; inner hinges quite neatly repaired with rice paper; rubbing to the cover label; light red check mark to title page; else a VG unworn copy, text quite clean, now tight in the binding, cover gilt bright. A scarce and desirable mountaineering book.

London: Smith, Elder, 1864. Octavo, hardcover, original green cloth. viii, 264 pp. Ex school library: spine has white call numbers and some wear to tips; cloth worn away to upper outer corner of front cover; bookplate; creases to front free endpaper; ink digits on verso of title leaf; some rippling to text paper from damp but no visible damp marks except lightly to the last page; else a good copy, tight in the binding. Howes M 831. Sabin 50853. "Morris's entertaining journal takes the reader from St. Louis to the Colorado Rockies in the summer of 1863. He had intended to travel by steamer up the Missouri to Fort Benton and the Montana gold fields. The boat broke down at Saint Joseph, however, and the author changed his destination to Denver where he spent several months before returning to the Atlantic states". - Wagner-Camp-Becker 404.