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8vo. First English Edition with an engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present) engraved title-vignette and numerous engraved illustrations (a number full-page) in the text guard and title lightly spotted; original cloth upper board elaborately b Bright copy of a scarce and important work.
8vo., First Edition, with 43 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges. Much sought-after biography of the climber who almost single-handedly rejuvenated the sport during the 1950s. Often accompanied by Don Whillans, he pioneered routes of extraordinary severity including Alps, first ascents of Kanchengjunga and the Montagh Tower. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate B185.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, with numerous plates, some light and inoffensive spotting, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. This title in found more often in green cloth. Having climbed extensively in the Alps, the author was killed in a climbing accident on Tryfan. Neate 232.
1353Genève, Editions de la Compagnie 1602, 1927 à 1977. 5 volumes in-8, pleine toile brique, titre en noir au premier plat, et au dos de 2 volumes, les 3 autres portant une étiquette. Ex-libris A. M. Perrin.
125619aafBern, Lith. F. Lips, (1866), ca. 22 x 75 cm, Lithographie mit oben u. unten Benennungen v. Bergspitzen u. Ortschaften, ausgefaltet unter Passepartout gerahmt (30x122 cm).
197327780Seattle:: The Mountaineers 1973 1977 1981. First Printings of the First US Edition. All copies are in Fine condition in leatherette bindings. Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guide series is considered classic information from one of the nation's godfathers of Western climbing. Each volume features expert information on more than 300 climbing and high routes in the Cascades including Mount Rainier. He includes geographical historical and geological overviews of the majestic North Cascades region plus important tips on safety and backcountry usage and enough technical and grade information to make clear exactly what type of route you are embarking upon. The Mountaineers, hardcover
2016x-9402402128Springer Verlag 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 252 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
Features: Congress must reform - Roscoe Drummond; Howard Hughes - he battles for an empire - Spruce Goose photos and more; The Rage to Ski - millions have developed a mad love affair with a sport that provides the thrill of speed on snow; Social Climbing on the Slopes; A condensation of the most startling book ever to be published in the Soviet Union - the truth about Stalin's prison camps; Stan Freberg - His Private War - the comic genius who harpoons the pompous, lampoons the ridiculous; The Wonderful, Wide, Backslapping World of Rotary; How the Modern Minuteman Missile Guards the Peace - great photos, air and ground. Average wear. Chips from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Outlaw Stronghold - the hectic history of a rugged wilderness area in Oklahoma and Arkansas often used as a sanctuary by fugitives; Climbing the Sutherland Falls in New Zealand; Frensham's Bungalow - a strange story related by a former officer of the Indian Army; A Bid for Fortune - a young newcomer to Darwin, Australia joins a veteran skipper in a trip to a secret pearl-oyster bed; A Pygmy Net-Hunt - a graphic description of a most ingenious method of capturing wild animals, with photos; The Lost Mine (Part I) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reputed to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spanish; The New Cook; Diggers - Australian gold-hunters, with photos; Velnagel's Gold - while salvaging old machinery from an abandoned Australian gold mine the narrator (Robert Stevens) stumbled into an extrordinary experience; The Arrow Mystery - a curious affair from the early days of the Nigerian Tin-Field; and more. Covers taped in place. Above-average wear. Book
82 pages. Features: The famous whirlpool of Corrievreckan; Grantown-On-Spey; Climbing the Matterhorn - the first British ascent was made by T.S.G. Carruthers and a companion; The Craig Crannogs; Ballet Rambert; Physicians of Edinburgh; Meet the Stirlin' (Starling); On Being a Child Genius; Edinburgh's James Bond - story and photo of Sean Connery; Victorian Architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson; Angling Company; Photos of weddings of the month, including Mr. J. Usher and Miss R. Houldsworth; and more. Ads include: Saint Joseph, South Africa, Helena Rubinstein, Sunshine Cruising/P&O Orient Lines, Chivas Regal, Pringle at Coplands, Nice colour-photo ad for the Ford Consul Classic (white model shown by beach), Lancome, Brooke Bond, nice one-page Land-Rover ad shows logs being hauled, and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Moderate external soiling. Unmarked. Loss to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
40 pages. Features: Colour photo ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne Custom Sport Coupe; Harry Peteran - Shoemaker at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children; Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy's Fight to Live Her Own Life; Photo of Daliah Lavi; Moonshine & Cookies (fiction); Climbing Through British Columbia - article with great colour photos; How to fill your freezer and live off the fat of the land; The Case of the Disappearing TV - locating televisions in 'hidden' places in homes; Free Shopping Spree - Ruth Buckerfield loads her shopping cart for 6 minutes at an IGA grocery store in North York; Young London Goes Ladylike - great colour and black and white fashion photos of designs by Emmanuelle Khahn, David Bond, Bates, John, Kiki Byrne and Roger Nelson; The Rites of Spring - watching pickerel spawn at Gamebridge, Ontario - article with photos; What Ails Dr. Ben Casey? - a visit with TV's Vince Edwards; Rural Route comic strip by Walter Ball; Montmorency comic. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Hooliganism in Belgium; The New Significance of Laos; Lady Lytton's Court Diary; 7th International Boat Show; The New Millbank Skyscraper (2 page pictorial); Peruvian Mountain Climbing; Congo disputes; Baluba refugees; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
2013500048180HOEBEKE 2013 192 pages 26 6x2 2x28 6cm. 2013. Broché. 192 pages.
2014x-9401795347Springer 2014. Hardcover. New. 2015 edition. 231 pages. 9.40x6.60x1.00 inches. Springer hardcover
1543619878.GaudioCD. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 16 plates (all original tissue guards present); original maroon pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Front and rear advertisement paste-downs preserved. With the nineteenth century armorial bookplate of Lt.-Colonel Hon. Henry C. Legge on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19912091502135704906Japan Document Association 1991. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Japan Document Association paperback
19862080202102707010Dohoshashuppan 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: 346 pages Size: A5 size Dohoshashuppan paperback
42952Buenos Aires Imp. Rotocalco Donaggio, Torino 1949 in 4 (28,5x25) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée en couileurs, 15 pages de texte liminaires, suivies de nombreuses illustrations photographiques tirées en bleu, avec 2 cartes hors-texte, dont une dépliante en couleurs (2 mapas, una plegada). 66 fotografías realizadas por el autor (dos plegadas). Text in Spanish. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, illustrations and full-page map in the text, and 2 large folding maps on japon; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and neatly repaired at extremities. Classic biography of arguably the most famous mountaineer of all time. Neate *736.
1912009351The Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District 1912 8vo. original red pictorial cloth gilt with decoration of Nape's Needle on upper panel recased with original backstrip laid down lacks FFE a little rubbed with a touch of wear to extremities several pressed and dried leaves loosely inserted occasionally leaving small stains else internally clean; pp.x last blank 418 with numerous illustrations. A good copy in the original FRCC binding Neate j52. First Edition. Hard Cover. G. The Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 33 plates and 12 maps (7 double-page); original green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF VICTOR WILKINSON DIX ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN . A keen alpinist, Dix was Professor of Surgery at London University Hospital. he finest guide of the period to the high level circuits and routes of the Alps, and still a most useful compendium today. Neate 864.
196127144Golden:: American Alpine Club 1961. Revised Edition. A Near Fine copy in maroon cloth binding. Fold out map is present. This edition describes some 980 routes as compared to around 580 in the 1949 edition. Essentially all known climbs have been covered including those on practice rocks. The route descriptions are the result of a committee effort and naturally there is some lack of uniform viewpoint and style. An extensive review and checking procedure has been very successful. in eliminating gross inconsistencies and the guide is probably as accurate as it is possible to produce for a range so large and complex as the Cascades. American Alpine Club, hardcover
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous fine photographs, some very light and occasional marginal browning, light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original green buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *302.
65335CBo.J. [2 Warenabbildungen] (Giuseppe Ghedina, geb. 25.10.1898 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, gest. 27.09.1986 ebenda, italienischer Skilangläufer. Athlet de