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Genêve, Edition J.H. Jeheber, sans date vers 1920. In-12 broché de 212 pages, couverture illustrée. Roman de faits. Edition française autorisée. traduction de Marcel TRAVEY. Portrait de Edward WHYMPER en frontispice. Très bon état.
No inscriptions or marks. Very small creases to corners of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright lightly indented boards, signs of shelf storage and no bumping to corners. 206pp. Foreword by Chris Bonington and Appreciation by Alan Rusbridger. Drawings and double-page map by Alfred Wainwright. 'A very special book - a unique autobiography which is also a living history of modern Lakeland climbing'. 'Harry's finest book - a classic of mountain literature'.
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall eng
in-8, 312 pp., broché, couv. Bel exemplaire. [DB-1]
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs in heliogravure (the majority full-page) in the text and double-page coloured map; faux-morocco boards, upper board lettered in gilt, brown cloth back lettered in gilt, covers mildly age-soiled, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. With publisher's advertisement leaf at rear. Sold from the Scottish Royal Geographical Society with its bookplate and stamps on endpapers and title. Published a year after the French edition. Neate 320.
8vo., First English Edition, with 32 plates, 13 tail-piece engravings by Whymper and 6 maps in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in worn dustwrapper, the latter with loss at edges of front and rear panels. Describes twenty-two fatal accidents in the High Alps. The work was first published in Paris in 1940. Neate 318.
in-8°, 170 pages, photographies en couleurs hors texte, broche, couverture illustree à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire [WE-CA]
In 4, cm 24 x 32, pp. 144 con centinaia di illustrazioni fotografiche a colori. Cartonatura editoriale. Ex libris. Questo testo viene considerato uno dei primi esempi di fotografia artistica legata all'arrampicata grazie alle immagini del fotografo Uli Wiesmeier. Glowactz, tedesco, e' stato uno dei protagosti dell'arrampicata durante gli anni '80
Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated anthology, including detailed registers of successful and failed attempts.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 95pp. Mountaineering magazine including features Soft rock in France, Ben Nevis walks, Haute Route - Zermatt, Baffin Island crags, Dovey Hills and much more. Very well illustrated, some in colour.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight strain to staples and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Mountaineering magazine including features Verdon Gorge, Kathmandu trekking, Lochnagar, Gardoms Edge, Trento, North Wales walk and much more. Very well illustrated, some in colour.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Mountaineering magazine including features on Bregaglia, Nepal trekking, peak bouldering, Snowdonia 20 walk, Millican Dalton, Gran Paradiso walk and much more. Very well illustrated, some in colour.
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to some corners. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 88pp. Mountaineering magazine including features Cairngorm walk, X.C skiing in Norway, super grit hit list, Harpur Hill, Namibia climbing and much more. Very well illustrated, some in colour.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing to front near spine and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Mountaineering magazine including features Walking boots tested, Lourmarin in France, Lost in Patagonia, bouldering in Oz, Gran Sasso in Italy, Cerro Torre and much more. Very well illustrated, some in colour.
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.
In 8, cm 15 x 21, pp. 292 + (4) con illustrazioni fotografiche nel testo. Storica guida delle pareti del finalese, ristampa della prima edizione del 1987
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly foxed top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 112pp. details of the climbs in the South-East Cairngorms area. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text and large folding map in pocket at end; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean copy. Published in the same year as the French edition. Neate 297.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 269pp. An authoritative study of the subject of safety on mountains under snowy conditions for skiiers and climbers and about rescue.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with lithograph frontispiece, 8 lithograph plates, 9 tinted lithograph topographical sketches on 4, engraved illustrations in the text and large folding map in pocket at end, plates mildly spotted, text-block clean, neat inscription on blank preliminary; original terracotta cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, neatly rebacked in cloth to style with original gilt label laid down, dove-blue endpapers, a very good, bright, firm copy. With the nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell of Marchmont. Robust copy of an alpine classic. VERY SCARCE. Neate *274.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 48 fine (a number in photogravure or toned in sepia; all original tissue guards present) and very large folding coloured map (a few neat repairs on inner folds), some light and occasional spotting (mainly marginal); original brown buckram, upper board blocked in black, backstrip with three leather labels lettered in gilt (labels worn but all gilt entirely legible), gilt top, uncut, expertly recased, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. The plate listed as facing p.162 is placed facing p.164; that listed as facing p.276 faces p.278. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *272.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates (a number in photogravure), folding panorama on japon and 2 large folding coloured maps (one in relief) at end, a little negligible foxing here and there; original red diced cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, an unusually well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *273.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The first substantial biography of the mountaineer, explorer and scholar.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, diagrams and maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
G (original blue cloth with dark blue mountain scene in line on front board, slightly faded especially on spine which is a little 'soft'. Slight foxing to endpapers, minimal wear) Third issue. Octavo 292pp illustrated. Describes a traverse of the Eastern Alps from Bludenz to Zell am See, made in the Summer of 1935