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)

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)

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)

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: 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)