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CLIMBS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
Edition: First UK printing
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42722More details Price: USD $30.00 -
EVEREST 1933
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 26721More details Price: USD $19.00 -
EVEREST: the Challenge
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51714More details Price: USD $29.95 -
EVEREST: the unfinished adventure
Edition: First edition
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
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51717More details Price: USD $50.00 -
FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. 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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25454More details Price: USD $85.00 -
GIVE ME THE HILLS
Riverside, CT: Chatham Press / Appalachian Mountain Club, 1971. Octavo, blue cloth. pp 278 + many photo plates, indexed. Spine faintly sunned, else fine. Fine jacket. Underhill was America's greatest female mountain climber, who pioneering all-women climbs.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42719More details Price: USD $15.00 -
HOURS OF EXERCISE INTHE ALPS
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 27013More details Price: USD $25.00 -
IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND An Account of a Journey into Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release brought about by Dr. Wilson and the Political Peshkar, Karak Sing-Pal
Edition: First US edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49931More details Price: USD $175.00 -
MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAINEER: Helvellyn to Himalaya . Lhasa: the holy city
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42917More details Price: USD $18.00 -
MEN AGAINST EVEREST
Edition: First printing
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42721More details Price: USD $15.00 -
Mountaineering in the Alps: Historical Survey
Edition: First of this edition
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).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42720More details Price: USD $19.50 -
MOUNTAINEERING. With one hundred & thirty illustrations (Horace Westmorland's copy)
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30161More details Price: USD $50.00 -
NAWORK ! the New Zealand expedition to New Guinea's highest mountains
London: Travel Book Club, 1963. Blue boards. pp (xiv), 189. Index. Fine in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44664More details Price: USD $10.00 -
NEW CLIMBS IN NORWAY: An Account of Some Ascents in the Sondmore District. Illustrated by A.D. McCormick and from Photographs
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29533More details Price: USD $395.00 -
RAMBLES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: With a Visit to the Gold Fields of Colorado.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 20560More details Price: USD $125.00 -
RED PEAK: a personal account of the British-Soviet Pamir Expedition 1962
Edition: First printing
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44692More details Price: USD $19.00 -
SOUVENIRS D'UN APLINISTE. Préface de M. Henry Bordeaux...
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11457More details Price: USD $50.00 -
THE ASCENT OF EVEREST
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
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44665More details Price: USD $10.00 -
The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
Edition: First printing
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006. pp (xxiv), (536). Photos in text, index. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47204More details Price: USD $14.95 -
THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. Early Travels and Explorations.
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 10974More details Price: USD $15.00