Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 160 pp, extensively illustrated with color photographs. Sunning and rubbing to bottom edge of boards, internals clean and sound. Dust jacket edgeworn, with a few small tears. Photo-essay and travelogue about the first... Item #17222
![7 [Seven] Summits Solo. Robert Mads Anderson, Edmund Hillary, Introduction](/pictures/thumb/17222.JPG?v=1474056028)
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, among others. Item #11517
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1836. Hardcover. Good+. Second edition, revised (first published 1835). 119 pp, with index, two plates, and a large folding panorama of the mountain. Ex-library, with discard markings, in a modern red buckram binding. Inscribed on the original front endpaper "To Dr. Neill, with much respect... Item #13030
![Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc [INSCRIBED]. Martin Barry](/pictures/thumb/13030.JPG?v=1474055271)
New York: Smithmark, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. First printing.160 pp, extensively illustrated with color photographs. 10.5 x 11.5 inches. Slight shelfwear to book and jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked. In addition to providing a history of attempts and ascents of Everest, Blessed "guides... Item #11954
London: Cassell, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 334 pp. illustrated with 48 color photographs and a folding plate showing the route of the expedition. Fine but for a slight spine slant. Signed by Bonington with a generic inscription ("All the best") on the... Item #11410
![Annapurna South Face [SIGNED]. Chris Bonington](/pictures/thumb/011410.JPG?v=1474055077)
1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Four-page photocopied typescript of Boukreev's remarks, on 8.5 x 11 paper, stapled at one corner and folded once horizontally. Boukreev--whose book The Climb describes the events of the tragic 1996 Everest climbing season from his perspective as a guide for Mountain Madness--here questions the effect... Item #12423
Wellington: A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Stapled binding. 48 pp, illustrated with black and white photographs, map of the Everest region inside back cover. Mild cover wear, mild foxing to title page only. Chapters cover the background of New Zealand mountaineering, early Everest expeditions... Item #12887
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 360 pp, with 17 plates. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Buhl's solo ascent of Nanga Parbat from the final camp (the first successful summit of the mountain) "ranks as one of the most... Item #12396
![Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage [SIGNED by Kurt Diemberger]. Hermann Buhl](/pictures/thumb/12396.jpg?v=1474055189)
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
1960: Harper and Row. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 222 pp, illustrated with photos and maps. Undated early reprint of the U.S. edition. Mild toning to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket also lightly tone, with a few tiny chips. Account of the first Swiss ascent... Item #11700
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: Edward Arnold, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Large 8vo; pp. xvi, 373, 1 (ad), with three maps (2 folding), folding panorama and 39 additional photographic plates. Original red cloth, front board with no design (perhaps indicating a later issue). Corners lightly rubbed, spine sunned but legible, second map... Item #15142
France: Arthaud, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Translated and adapted by Roland Le Grand, with the cooperation of Wilfred Noyce, with 169 Heliogravure Illustrations. Folded map laid in. Blue cloth boards have just slight wear. Binding tight and square, text unmarked. Dust jacket has light... Item #11127
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second printing. 77 pp, illustrated, with folding map at the rear. Previous owner's info on front pastedown, else fine. No dust jacket. "An attractive companion to the author's climbing history, linked to the geology of the range" (Neate F79). Item #11840
London: Collins, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 183 pp, with 40 plates, some color. A fine copy in a clean, priced dust jacket with light edgewear and a few short closed tears. Account of the first direct route up the north face of the... Item #13386
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1924. First American Edition. 8vo, 321 pp, with illustrations from photographs, folding map, index. Publisher's orange cloth illustrated in black. Mild dust soiling to the cloth, else clean and sound. Very good. Account of a four-month, 1500 mile journey by geologist and explorer John Walter Gregory (1864-1932)... Item #18137
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. 224 pp, illustrated with photographs, maps by A. Spark, and sketches by George Djourkouic. Very good copy with some rubbing to the spine lettering, offsetting from dust jacket flaps to endpapers. Binding tight, text clean... Item #18945
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. x, 322 pp + illustrations, with map, bibliography, index. Minor soiling to edges of boards; else fine. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. First American Edition. "In this dramatic re-creation of the... Item #331
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: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv, 282 pp + illustrations from photographs, with color frontispiece. Corners bumped, spine lettering dulled (as usually found), bookplate of Richard Wheatley Lewis on front pastedown. No dust jacket. Organized into geographical sections: Northwestern United States and Canada... Item #1728
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. xi, 378 pp. Majority of pages unopened, light soiling and wear to boards including bumped corners; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Classic account of twelve climbs in the Sierras between 1864 and 1873. Item #1397
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
