Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 303 pp, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos. Clean, tight binding, minimal wear. Dust jacket has a short tear to the rear panel. An authoritative history of the sport of rock climbing in the United States..... Item #11942
London and New York: Kaye & Ward and Oxford University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 143 pp, illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. Quarto (8-3/4" X 10-1/2"). Translated by Audrey Salkeld. Slight dust soiling to top edge, else fine, in a clean..... Item #11457
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 268 pp, illustrated with color and b/w photographs.Slight softening to spine ends, else a fine copy. Briefly inscribed and signed by Messner beneath the epigraph. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has just a...... Item #12395
London: Robert Hale, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 176 pp, with index and bibliography, illustrated with 70 photographs by the author and 4 maps. Good only. Front hinge starting, boards sunned at top and bottom edges, evidence of removed bookplate on front free endpaper. Useful survey of climbing history in..... Item #11334
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 105 pp of text, plus 150 photographs by the author and 7 map-diagrams. Spine and edges toned, corners bumped. Binding sound, text unmarked. No dust jacket. A well-illustrated survey of climbing in this region. Neate M112. Item #11490
David & Charles, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 288 pp, indexed, w/maps and color photographs. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Martin and his climbing partner Simon Jenkins completed the first ever traverse of all 75 "4000ers" in one continuous journey..... Item #11397
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 191 pp, illustrated with color photographs and line drawings. Brief gift inscription on front endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has minor soiling and one short tear to the rear panel. Account of..... Item #12592
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. 191 pp, w/photographs and maps. Translated from the original German by Oliver Coburn. "Describes the pleasures and drawbacks of climbing in Spitsbergen" (Neate, N45). The 8 members of this expedition covered about 1250 miles and made..... Item #11815
London: Kaye & Ward, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition in English; translated from the German. Corners of both book and jacket lightly bumped, else a fine copy. 173 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, one folding color panorama. Neate P23. First compiled in 1885..... Item #12997
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 234 pp + 14 pages of b/w photographs,map endpapers. Gift inscription dated 1962 on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked, tightly bound. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with minimal edgewear. A very nice copy. Pearson's climbing adventures..... Item #20883
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 244 pp, illustrated with color photographs. Some rubbing to bottom edge. Binding tight, text unmarked. Signed by Perkins under her name on the title page, with two hearts drawn beneath. Dust jacket has..... Item #14210
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New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in a No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Map, frontis portrait of the author, and 20 b/w photographs. Foreword by Douglas Freshfield, Introduction by Rev. L.C. Casartelli. An ex-library copy with the usual discard markings. Mild spine slant, one plate loose..... Item #11153
Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An as-new copy, signed by Simpson (without inscription) under his name on the title page. A sequel to his mountaineering classic, Touching the Void, this work is both a memoir of his climbing life and..... Item #13140
New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 256 pp, indexed, illustrated with photographs, some color. Mild spotting to boards, tight binding, no markings. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn. Wildred Noyce and Robin Smith, two leading British..... Item #11911
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. 8vo. 240 pp. Fourth impression. Blue cloth boards. Some sunning at the bottom of the spine, otherwise minimal wear. Tight binding, no internal markings. Top edge of dust jacket has some chipping, short tears, and front..... Item #11119
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977. First Edition (Indian). Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 184 pp, extensively illustrated with both color and b/w photographs. Creasing to upper corner of first five leaves, light bumping to lower corners. Signed "Tenzing" on the half title, with "To William..... Item #20851
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London: Newnes, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 247 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, most by the author. Mild wear to spine ends, boards very slightly bowed. Dust jacket has light edgewear and a few small chips. Neate M83. A combination of anthology and..... Item #12868
London: Titus Wilson and Son, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 159 pp, with 13 plates. Mild shelfwear; tight binding, no markings. Dust jacket is chipped at the corners and spine ends and has a few short, closed tears. "Climbing memoirs of a noted..... Item #12364
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition, re-drawn, first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches, oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett (1837-1872) was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett (1834-1913), who regularly gathered a party of friends..... Item #14703
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 322 pp, illustrated with photos and maps. Light soiling to fore edge; spine ends rubbed. Binding tight, text unmarked. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Tulllis, who died on K2 shortly after completing..... Item #11514
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a very good dust jacket. 429 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos. Light sunning to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket has some very minor staining to the spine and a closed tear to the rear..... Item #20885
New York: Broadway Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. First printing. 358 pp, with index and b/w photos. Light wear to spine ends; else fine, in a clean dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. Viesturs, the first American to climb all the world's..... Item #11459
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. First printing. 160 pp plus ads. Orange cloth binding stamped in black; no dust jacket. Minor soiling to rear board, spine slightly faded but fully legible, protected by a clear mylar..... Item #11395
St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint of the 1938 edition. 514 pp, illustrated and indexed; black boards stamped in gilt, no dust jacket. Lower corners lightly bumped, else fine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Greetings from House of Wickersham, Ruth Allman, Juneau Alaska..... Item #11729
New York: Cassell and Company, [1900]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 204 pp, with three colored folding maps and 67 illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth with illustration of the authors on the front board. Minor insect damage to front board, spine slightly toned, some foxing to endpapers..... Item #17161
