Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 291 pp, with glossary and many b/w illustrations. Dust jacket is rubbed at the corners and has a few short closed tears. Barber was an early advocate of clean climbing and a prolific solo climber... Item #12588
Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. 276 pp, plus 8 pages of black and white plates. Signed by Lowe-Anker under her name on the title page. Clean and tight, with minimal wear. A moving memoir of the author's marriage to climber Alex... Item #12500
New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 12 color plates and 271 b/w illustrations. Pages mildly age-tanned, else a fine copy, in a price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips and short tears. A comprehensive illustrated survey of human interactions... Item #12623
London: Museum Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 166 pp, with 13 plates. Translated from the French by J.F. Burke. Preface by Maurice Herzog. Spine toned, boards lightly edgeworn, endpapers foxed, but still a good, sound copy, with an original publisher's review slip... Item #11482
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. xii, 290 pp + maps + illustrations, with errata slip tipped in on p. 275, index, illustrated map endpapers. Edge wear with rubbed corners; else clean and sound. "It was in 1958 that a group of young members of the... Item #1008
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 this region. Neate M113. 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
Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. Third edition, third printing. Trade paperback, 364 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos. Signed by Molenaar over his name on the title page. The first complete history of climbing on Rainier. Signed by Author(s). Item #11947
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: Barron's, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. First U.S. edition, translated from the german. Clean and tight, in a very lightly rubbed but otherwise fine dust jacket. 283 pp, extensively illustrated with color photographs. An anthology with... Item #11569
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
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
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
Vienna: Alpiner Verlag Gustav Schmidt, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 335 pp, with 91 b/w illustrations from photographs.Original green cloth with mounted photo. General wear to boards, including a short tear in the cloth along the rear joint and mild bowing. Internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Text in German. Item #334
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs. Biography of the German Alpine climber who was killed on Nanga Parbat in 1934 at the age of 33. During his short life he climbed 949 peaks, of which 43 were first ascents... Item #11315
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 10.25 x 12.25 inches, oblong. xv, 191 pp, with illustrations, bibliography, index. A fine copy, in price clipped dust jacket withlight shelf wear. Organized into five geographical sections: Mustagh Ata, Tian Shan, Inner Tibet... Item #1348
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 192 pp, extensively illustrated with color photographs. Corners of both book and jacket bumped; otherwise a very nice copy. One of the world's most accomplished mountaineers describes... Item #11630
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
Portland, Oregon: Self-published, 1907. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 6-3/4" stapled printed bluewraps, pp. 142-200 (continuously numbered from earlier issues) + several pages of ads, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Some general wear to wrappers, several pages with annotation from an early reader in red pen. Includes articles by A.A. Smith, George... Item #20514
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 autobiography. Item #12868
