London and Chicago: George Allen and Unwin and Rand McNally, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Ninth book in the series, which gathered reports of mountaineering and scientific expeditions. 224 pp, with 56 plates; maps. Includes expeditions to Bhutan, Brazil, the Hindu Kush, Everest, and Antarctica..... Item #11517
London: Museum Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224 pp, indexed and illustrated. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, no dust jacket. Mild wear to extremities and slight spine lean. Tightly bound and unmarked. No dust jacket. William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge was an American theologian and climber who lived..... Item #12506
London: Phoenix House, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 288 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, appendices, bibliography, index. Corners heavily bumped; internals clean and sound. Dust jacket is price clipped and has chipping to the upper right quadrant of the front panel. "This is the first book..... Item #961
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp. vi, 290 + 8 (ads). Index, 12 plates (3 folding). Original blue cloth binding; mild wear to spine ends, one corner bumped. Some foxing to front matter, otherwise clean and unmarked. Foreword by O.T. Jones. A comprehensive survey..... Item #12606
New York and London: S.S. McClure Co., 1896. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards; spine gilt with raised bands. Some scuffing to the leather; internals sound and clean. Includes (among other things) Stephen Crane's "The Veteran" and "The Little Regiment," two poems by Kipling ("The 'eathen,"..... Item #18878
London: Archibald Constable, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. xvi, 403 pp, with color frontispiece, many illustrations from photographs (some folding), five folding maps, appendices, index. Original red cloth boards, rubbed at the edges and corners, minor damage to cloth at upper spine. Mild spine slant, but binding sound, text..... Item #20467
London: Hutchinson, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 176 pp, with 17 plates and a 2-page sketch map of Bezingi Basin. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some creasing to the upper front..... Item #11697
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1954. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. First American edition, signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, and Charles Evans, and the London Times correspondent James Morris (now Jan Morris), who accompanied the party. xx, 300 pp..... Item #21020
Harbor Springs, MI: Good Hart Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 306 pp, illustrated with line drawings. As new. Kasischke was a member of Rob Hall's ill-fated expedition during the 1996 Everest climbing season. According to the dust jacket, he offers "his perspective and analysis..... Item #20884
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume containing six complete issues (bound without their original wrappers). pp viii, 768. Publishers drab green cloth boards with beveled edges, decorated in gilt on spine and front board, top edge gilt.Mild shelfwear; very good. Dora Keen (1871-1963) was the..... Item #18873
London: John Murray, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in English, translated from the third German edition by Erwin and Pleasaunce von Gaisberg; edited and with additional chapters by H.E.G. Tyndale. Edges of text block dust-soiled, spine ends sunned. Binding tight and square, text unmarked. No dust jacket..... Item #13184
Bombay: Orient Longmans Limited, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ in a NONE dust jacket. 384 p, with 56 plates, some color. Binding tight and square, text unmarked. Dust jacket is edgeworn, with chipping and short tears, and is partially adhered to boards due to some old water-damage (not affecting text..... Item #11701
Zurich, Switzerland: AS Verlag und Buchkonzept, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. A tightly bound, unmarked copy with mild rubbing to the extremities, in a clean dust jacket with some edgewear. A comprehensive biography of the extreme alpinist, based on..... Item #11207
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
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
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: 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
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
Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small bump to fore edge of book visible on both boards, otherwise a fine copy, in a near fine dust jacket with a scratch at the upper right corner. Signed by Simpson (without..... Item #13140
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