PARKER James A.MareMagnum
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Roy. 8vo., Third Edition, with a frontispiece, 2 large folding panoramas, 27 plates and rear endpaper map, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and wanting section from lower backstrip/front panel and from rear fold-in.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations in the text and maps, and pictorial endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, blue top, small mark on upper board else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed (just affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Endpaper portraits and illustrations by A.J. Veilhan. Noyce was the first member of the expedition to readh the South Col. Neate 576.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations and maps in the text, and portrait endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Arguably the best of the personal accounts of the first successful Everest expedition. On 21 May Noyce and Annullu were the first members of the team to reach the South Col, so lifting morale of the expedition as a whole. 'One of the best of the many Everest books' (Neate). Neate *576.
242pp. Hardcover Very good condition good
xxx, 207 p., illus. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Signed by author on title page. In new, unread condition. 70pp. Detailed instructions and some history of eight walks and scrambles in Slovenia, beginning with information on travel, accommodation and access to the country. Very well set out with a fair number of small coloured photographs to assist along the routes. Sketch maps. Very scarce.
New Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 131, [1] p., color ills. Geleneksel tirmanis: Malzemeler, organizasyon, tirmanis. Traditional rock climbing: Kit, organization and method.
Very Good Very Good English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (34 x 25 cm). In Turkish. color ills. 159 p. Mahruki's travels and expeditions to Himalayas and the other peaks, and Antarctica. Bir hayalin pesinde. Yedi zirveler, Bati Yariküre ve Antarktika.
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Hardcover. Luxury printing. Fine. 4to. (33.5 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 187 p. Color ills. Everest'te ilk Türk. Chomolungma dünyanin ana tanriçasi.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 163, [3] p., color plates. Everest'te ilk Türk. Chomolungma, dünyanin ana tanriçasi. Enlarged Second Edition.
New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 191 p., ills. Tirmanis güncesi: Denizin mavisinden daglarin beyazina 7 bin 105 metre hikayesi. A climbing chronicle of a Turkish mountaineer.
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
8vo. First Edition with frontispiece plates and maps some very light and occasional age-staining; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt all other compa Nice copy of Murray's second great work on Scottish mountaineering. Neate M189.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. With print-through impression of the red cover cloth on the end papers. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 134pp. Tables of the 3000 ft Munros, the 2500 ft Corbetts and the 2000 ft Donald mountains and lowlands of Scotland with illustrations and maps and a Gaelic guide.
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, plates in photogravure and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on title, free endpapers lightly browned; original oatmeal buckram, backstrip with leather labels (chipped at edges) framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. Mummery's classic account was first published in 1895. In this, arguably the best, edition the frontispiece of Aiguille Verte is replaced by the author's portrait. Neate *555.
Features: Was Vought's F8U-3 Crusader III Crucified by an Unworkable Fighter/Bomber Concept?; Climbing the Alps to Germany - the Lockheed P-38 over Africa, Sicily and Italy; Frances WW I Breguet Bomber Brigade. Art: Vought F8U-3 Crusader III; Crusader IIIs in flight; Lockheed P-38J-5 with F-5B Magazine
118 pages. Features: What makes a great garden railway?; Climbing loops and switchbacks; The 5th Annual National Gauge 1 Steamup; The Connecticut Central; Shape p your Spruce; The fundamentals of handlaid track. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Mountain Climbing - nice photos; Nova Scotia Feast - the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture's Annual mammoth chicken barbecue, the chicken a la grille; Drumbeats on the Prairie - Fort Battle, built by the Northwest Mounted Police in 1876; Ontario Roadside Parks Invite You; Trip Tips for Camera Fans; Summer Theatre - the Stratford Festival; Esso's Touring Service. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Meeting Report - Poisonous Plants; The Rattlesnake Fern in Japan; Climbing Ferns; Antique Fern Prints; Home Grown Jungle; and more Book
140 pages. Features: Gene Chase's Davis D-1-W; GlaStar;Sky Arrow; Minimoa; Climbing Everest; OX-1-1/4?; The Seasprite. Light wear. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 11-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Kidnapping of John S. Labatt; many international stories; Saanich will hold 65th annual fair in September; Cameron Lake photo; Photo of Father Bernard R. Hubbard mountain climbing in Alaska; Editorial page; Large ad for Standard Furniture Co.; Razing of main classroom structure of Corrig College in Victoria; Vacation page; photo of Dr. William Beebe and his steel diving ball; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: Explorers Club members help select the "Seven Underwater Wonders of the World"; High Points of Climbing in the Alps; Nepal's Karnali Zone - Land without Rice; Mountains in Crisis - Man Vs. Nature; The cutting edge of low technology - pack animals; Galapagos Gourmets and Gourmands; A Benediction for Voyager 2. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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: Aerial Possibilities of 1918 (story); Aerial activity from Flanders to the Adriatic; Physical fitness Guarded in Trench & Dug-out; Where Snowy Winter is called a temporary truce; With General Marshall's men in Mesopotamia; From the Field of Conflict to the Camp of Care; Brought to the fore by Revolution in Russia; New Light on the True Inwardness of Bolshevism (story by Hamilton Fyfe); Behind the lines in lands of Beauty and Romance; Protective Colouring and Pyrotechnics in War; Some thrilling episodes in the story of the Light Cruisers (story); Below-Deck Heroes Daily Brave unseen danger - photos of the 'black squad' feeding the boilers with coal; Aspects of Sir Edmund Allenby's Palestine Army; American Soldiers enter sternly into action; Emergencies in Frontier Fighting in the East; Mountain Climbing in the Mahsud Campaign; Active Women Wield the Woodman's Axe and saw; Keepting the ways clear with constant work; The 7th Canadian Infantry (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
