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
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)
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
London: Victor Gollancz, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- in a Near Fine dust jacket. 256 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. Spine cocked, marks on endpapers where jacket was once taped down, bookplate of Major William D. Hackett (an accomplished climber and first person to reach 5 of the 7..... Item #13185
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)
Zurich: Wolfsberg. Softcover. Near Fine. Four-panel folding lithograph brochure, 18 x 44 cm when unfolded, undated but c. 1920s. One side entirely a color lithograph view of hikers overlooking Aletsch Glacier (the largest glacier in the Alps) from 11480 feet on Jungfraujoch, with other peaks identified in the background. The..... Item #20632
![Jungfraubahn Berneroberland/Schweiz [Lithograph Swiss Travel Brochure by Noted Poster Artist]....](/pictures/thumb/20632_1.jpg?v=1569181541)
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
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
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
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
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, 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
Boston: James Osgood, 1879. Hardcover. Very good-. Sixth edition, with maps and revisions. 308 pp, with two colored folding maps, bound in green cloth with beveled edges. Bookplate of the Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Some wear to extremities, spine lean, paper over rear hinge..... Item #20655
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
