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)
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. pp. 125-218 + ads. Original printed wrappers, stamped "Property of the Mountaineers" on front cover and first page. Otherwise unmarked, clean and sound, with some chipping and tiny tears at the edges. Articles include "Tehepite Valley" (Muir); "Scrambles About Yosemite"... (Item #14775)
![Sierra Club Bulletin Vol. IX, No. 3, January 1914 [with much on Yosemite]. William Frederic Bade, John Muir, Joseph Le Conte, F. E. Matthes, Marion Randall Parsons, Lena Redington, Willis Linn Jepson, A. Martha Walker.](/pictures/thumb/14775.JPG?v=1474055701)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. First American edition. A fine copy but for a bookplate on the front pastedown which reads "A personal reading copy for our bookseller friends, whose opinions and criticisms we welcome and value... (Item #13672)
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. Inscribed by Author(s). 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... (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)
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)
Chicago: Walter A. Johnson Company. Softcover. Fine. Undated facsimile reprint in fine condition. 16 pp, stapled binding. Articles on Yosemite, Climbing Mt. Baker (Mazama Club); "A Calendar of Travel, Where to Go and What to Go For" (by Burgess); and "The Trip of Our Lives: The Non-Contest Side of the... (Item #15427)
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good-. Second edition, with corrections (first issued in 1887). viii, 180 pp, indexed, illustrated with 23 gravure plates (portraits) and several drawings in the text. Withdrawn library copy, with minor related markings. Call number covered and barely noticeable at head... (Item #12434)
New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the second impression of the 1909 edition. xvi, 403 pp, with illustrations from photographs (some folding), appendices, index. Minimal wear to boards, internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. A "detailed account of the expedition which [the author] led... (Item #1078)
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes series. xx, 439 pp + illustrations, Badminton Library catalogue; indexed .Corners lightly bumped, foxing to first and last few pages; else clean. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on early history, equipment, snowcraft... (Item #2418)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 344 pp, indexed, extensively illustrated with b/w photos, maps. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Signed by Diemburger on the title page. Boards are sunned at the edges; front board... (Item #12488)
![Summits and Secrets [SIGNED]. Kurt Diemberger.](/pictures/thumb/12488.jpg?v=1474055208)
New York: Harper and Brothers. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Undated, but c. 1954. 256 pp, illustrated with b/w plates and maps. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, with minimal wear. Dust jacket has one short tear and a chip to the rear... (Item #12622)
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)
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xiii, 270 pp with many illustrations from photographs, in original gilt-illustrated cloth. Corners lightly rubbed, spine sunned (but legible), previous owner's name on front endpaper; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Nicely illustrated account of a photographic... (Item #18436)
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)
London: Edwin Arnold, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in original green cloth, pp xxiii, 278; x, 295, complete with 76 full-page photographic plates, 4 color folding maps (one in rear pocket), 3 folding panoramas, additional illustrations in the text. Boards have some old insect nibbling at the... (Item #18541)
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)
