London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Blue cloth. pp 260 + photo plates, a few in colour, index. Fine. Price-clipped jacket has a one inch corner tear to front panel, tiny chip at foot of spine, VG+ otherwise. The distinguished mountaineer's last book. ; Octavo

Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First Popular Edition, abridged. Light blue cloth. pp (xx), 299 + plates. Ink owner name to corner of front free endpaper, light spine sunning, yellowing to page edges; light sunning and small light spot on rear cover, else a VG clean and tight jacketless copy.; Octavo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Blue cloth. pp (16), (296 + section of 63 photo plates at rear + two large folding maps. Hand-drawn portraits at front, index. Ink gift inscription at front, nicks to spine ends, mild wear to outer corners, one small corner bruise, else a fine and bright jacketless copy. The 1936 expedition reached the North Col but ascended no further than 7000 feet before having to turn back. 1.7 kg parcel; Quarto

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Inscribed by Author.; Second printing, same year as first. Variant white boards, endpaper maps. 272 pp + many photos, some in colour. A VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in red ink on the title page "To _____, Ed Hillary". The account of his expedition up the Ganges and then to its source high in the Himalayas.; Signed by Author. 0340224606

New York: Appleton, 1896. Later printing. Original brown decorated cloth stamped in black and blind, spine gilt lettered. pp (xii), 473, [5] + 7 full-page woodcut illustrations. Cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; faint spotting on rear cover; else a nearly fine, bright, tight and unworn copy, no owner names.; Octavo

London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Revised and reprinted. First published in two separate volumes in 1940 and 1938. First one volume, revised, was in 1945. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (2), 445 + frontispiece portait and numerous other plates and folding map at rear. Index. Spine and spine lettering faded, a good, clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy otherwise.

London: Country Life, 1954. Octavo, blue boards. pp 64 + plates. Fine in fine jacket. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1971. Octavo, plain brown boards. pp 318, [2] + plates. Light sunning to spine and margins of covers, else fine, no owner names in VG jacket. An enlarged and completely revised edition of A HISTORY OF MOUNTAINEERING IN THE ALPS (1950). 004796037x

London: Travel Book Club, 1963. Blue boards. pp (xiv), 189. Index. Fine in jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp 256 + plates. Index. Fine in price-clipped jacket. The expedition conquered the 24,590 ft Peak of Communism, highest mountain in the USSR, in the mountains north of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Paris: Payot, 1929. Reprint of a book first published in 1886. Octavo. 272 pp +8 photo plates. Nicely rebound in brown quarter leather, spine with 3 raised bands, marbled covers and endpapers, top edge gilt and with a bound-in string bookmark, original paper cove rs bound in. Slight flaking to the thin gilt rules on spine; long ink inscription to a blank leaf before the title leaf; else fine. Housed in a marbled card slipcase (slight wear). A very pleasant copy of this mountaineering classic (Alps). Javelle was the first to scale the Tour-Noir.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. Third printing. Blue cloth. pp xx, (300) + plates; illustrations and maps in text, index. Near fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and slight rubbing along top edge, VG otherwise. Mountaineering classic

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006. pp (xxiv), (536). Photos in text, index. Fine in fine jacket. 0786715790

Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1969. Blue boards, colour endpaper maps. xvi, (252) pp + two double-sided colour photo plates; numerous photos in text, indexed. Covers have sunning to upper and lower margins, bit of foxing to page edges, VG otherwise. Price-clipped jacket is just good, with creases to flaps, yellowing and numerous edge tears to rear panel, spine; internal foxing; bubbling to lamination of front panel.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946. Beige cloth. pp xii, 274 + plates and four folding maps. Index. Spine lightly darkened, slight soiling to covers, yellowing to page edges, tiny owner name at front, else a VG jacketless copy. Mountain climbing and skiing in the Pyrennes, Alps, White Mountains and the Rockies in America, Persia, and South Africa.

Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. Beige boards. pp (186), photos, illustrations, chonology, bibliography. Fine copy. Dust jacket has tears to head of spine, VG otherwise. John Norman Collie, Professor of Chemistry, geographer, writer, and art collector, was one of the greatest mountaineers of his age, climbing in the greatest mountain ranges of the world, including the then relatively untouched Canadian Rockies.