New York: Ten Speed Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 309 pp, extensively illustrated in color. As new. Publisher's description: Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured..... Item #22627
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 367 pp, with index, illustrations from photographs, maps. Bookplate on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in an attractive price-clipped dust jacket with some tiny chips to the top edge. Neate C53..... Item #22444
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: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription..... Item #22266
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 321 pp, in original green cloth with mountain vignette in white. Spot of bubbling to cloth on front board, light rubbing to extremities, lacking tissue guard over color frontispiece. Binding tight, text clean. Short gift inscription -- "F.H. Burr from..... Item #22177
Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 126 pp, 11.25" x 8.5", extrensively illustrated with b/w photos. Slight wear to extremities, else a fine copy, in original red cloth binding. Dust jacket is chipped along top edge. Provides short histories of..... Item #22642
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1966. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Revised edition. 155 pp, with index, photographs, maps. Near fine copy in original pictorial cloth, slight spotting to top edge. Dust jacket has a few minor chips and tears. Edwards, who spent nine years as a...... Item #22241
New York: Frederick Stokes. Hardcover. Good. First American edition, undated, but Neate (F24) suggests of date of 1899, which would precede the English edition. 10.75" x 7.5", pp xvi, 240, [1] pp.; with 34 photogravure plates (most after photographs by Sella) and additional illustrations from photographs throughout, 4 folding panoramas..... Item #21991
London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper..... Item #22265
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 192 pp, in original blue cloth boards. Fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, minor soiling to rear panel. Translated from the French by Hugh Merrick. Illustrated with photographs. An Account..... Item #22623
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
Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, 1954. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Reprint. 456 pp, indexed, with 20 photographic illustratations. Minor wear to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has creasing and tears to the lower front panel. Memoirs of an accomplished Alpine guide, edited..... Item #22619
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
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 Fair 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
New York: Lyons & Buford, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First printing.186 pp. As new, in a clean, price-clipped dust jacket with minimal wear/ Krakauer's first book, a collection of compelling portraits of challenging climbs and the people who attempt them. Item #22621
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
Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 209 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Blue cloth boards are somewhat soiled, internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Account of the 1933 Houston-Mount Everest aerial survey expedition and flight over the summit. Neate C86. Item #22630
New York: Macmillan, 1895. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 306 pp, with folding Map of the Kingdom of Kashmir and many illustrations by the author. Lettering and illustration on cloth boards is quite faded, one crack in binding, scattered foxing, old dampstain and private library embossed stamp visible on title..... Item #22446
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
