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MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES AT HOME AND ABROAD

By: Abraham, George D.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. , Ltd.: 1910

Seller ID: 12384

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Light wear to extremities. Spine slightly faded. Endpapers browned. Hinges started. Bookplate to front pastedown ; Early adventures in mountain climbing. With twenty-six illustrations ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 308,47 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1955

By: Barnes, Malcolm

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1955

Seller ID: 3735

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Bookplate and small stamp on front endpaper; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 208 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1960/61

By: Barnes, Malcolm

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1961

Seller ID: 3739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Bookplate and small sticker to front endpaper. ; Including a detailed, topographic map ("Swiss style", 1: 50'000) of Mount McKinley, Alaska ; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 262 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1962/63

By: Barnes, Malcolm

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1964

Seller ID: 3740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Fore edge stamped. Bookplate and stamp on front endpaper; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 239 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1955

By: Barnes, Malcolm

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1955

Seller ID: 18591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Moderate wear and chipping to DJ ; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages
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OVER THE EDGE The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia

By: Child, Greg

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 2002

Seller ID: 15900

ISBN: 0375506098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight wear to DJ. Boards bowed ; The harrowing kidnapping by and eventual escape from bandits in Kyrgyzstan ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 284 pages
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BEYOND THE ALPS A Summer in the Italian Hill Towns

By: Coates, Robert M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: 1961

Seller ID: 1847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards a bit browned and with one small dampstain ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 159 pages
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ACONCAGUA AND TIERRA DEL FUEGO A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration

By: Conway, Martin (Sir)

Price: $675.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1902

Seller ID: 2209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Minor rubbing to top and bottom spine. Bookplate and previous owner's name on front endpaper. Pages a bit browned; Dark red boards with gilt lettering. Conway is a very famous mountaineer. He travelled widely in Europe, Egypt and the East; led an expedition in the Himalayas 1892; traversed the Alps 1894; explored in Spitsbergen, Bolivian Andes and Chile. He also wrote "The Alps", one of the most beautiful illustrated mountain books of its time, published in London by A & C Black (also available) ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 252, 16 pages
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HILLARY AND TENZING CLIMB EVEREST

By: Davidson, Bob

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Winchester, Hampshire (england), Zoe Books Limited: 1993

Seller ID: 18403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Great 20th Century Expeditions; Ex-Library; 8vo; 32 pages
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EXPLORING THE HIMALAYA

By: Douglas, William O.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1958

Seller ID: 18054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

DJ with light rubbing to extremities; Supreme Court Associate Justice Douglas details some of the noteworthy expeditions in the Himalayas including his own; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 177 pages
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FIRST OVER EVEREST The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933

By: Fellowes, P. F. M. , Et Al

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, John Lne the Bodley Head Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 17169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine sunned, front board partially sunned; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 264 pages
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THE ALPS FOR THE MOTORIST

By: Freeston, Charles L.

Price: $102.88

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927

Seller ID: 13712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Wear to extremities. Contents page torn out. Bookplate to verso of ffep; Tooling around the Alps in the 1920s in your roadster; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 176 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1954

By: Gurtner, Othmar

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1954

Seller ID: 3736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Some rubbing to DJ ; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 224 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1955

By: Gurtner, Othmar

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1955

Seller ID: 3737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Some rubbing to DJ ; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 222 pages
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THE MOUNTAIN WORLD 1956/57

By: Gurtner, Othmar; Kurz, Marcel

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1956

Seller ID: 3738

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Spine sunned. Bookplate; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 200 pages
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GHOSTS OF EVEREST The Search for Mallory & Irvine

By: Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A. ; & Simonson, Eric R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Seattle, The Mountaineers Books: 1999

Seller ID: 16400

ISBN: 0898866995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

The British Everest Expedition of 1924 was last seen on the mountain's Northeast Ridge on June 8, 1924. This book, by the team that discovered their remains and that of their camp, unravels the time line and broaches the question, 'Did they summit Everest nearly thirty years before Hilary and Tenzing? Stated first edition; Color Photographs; 8vo; 207 pages
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ANNAPURNA First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak [26, 493 Feet]

By: Herzog, Maurice

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1952

Seller ID: 17008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ with small open tears; The leader of the French expedtion in the Himalayas writes of the arduous climb up Annapurna. Map of the route to verso of DJ; Color Photographs; 8vo; 208 pages
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THE ASCENT OF EVEREST

By: Hunt, John

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1953

Seller ID: 16948

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

DJ a bit yellowed and with one small chip. Bookplate. Very light foxing to front endpaper; Written by the leader of the British expedition. ; B&W & Color Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages
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THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST

By: Hunt, Sir John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 18402

Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing

Condition: Very Good

Light wear and tanning to boards. ; The epic story of the world's highest peak, and the men who climbed it ; B&W and Color Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages
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THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST

By: Hunt, Sir John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 18303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

DJ worn and with top spine and front flap missing; The epic story of the world's highest peak, and the men who climbed it ; B&W and Color Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages
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RETURN TO THE ALPS

By: Knight, Max

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Earth:

Seller ID: 18630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Nd [1976]. A masterpiece - with photographs by Gerhard Klammet; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages
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RETURN TO THE ALPS

By: Knight, Max

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Earth:

Seller ID: 19206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Very light soiling and shelfwear to boards; Nd [1976]. A masterpiece - with photographs by Gerhard Klammet. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages
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SOUTH COL A Personal Story of the Ascent of Everest

By: Noyce, Wilfrid

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: 1955

Seller ID: 17185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

By: Ralston, Aron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Atria Books: 2004

Seller ID: 18400

ISBN: 0743492811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo
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SIR EDMUND HILLARY & THE PEOPLE OF EVEREST

By: Ramsay, Cynthia Russ

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 15069

ISBN: 0740729500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Closed tear to DJ rear; After reaching the summit of Everest, Sir Edmund developed an abiding bond with the land and its people ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 174 pages
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SIR EDMUND HILLARY & THE PEOPLE OF EVEREST

By: Ramsay, Cynthia Russ

Price: $16.58

Publisher: Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 16135

ISBN: 0740729500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight shelf wear to DJ; After reaching the summit of Everest, Sir Edmund developed an abiding bond with the land and its people ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 174 pages
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ALIVE The Story of the Andes Survivors

By: Read, Piers Paul

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1974

Seller ID: 3692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

DJ with some small, open tears; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 352 pages
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FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE FOR UNSCIENTIFIC PEOPLE A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews

By: Tyndall, John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1873

Seller ID: 3682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Spine ends a bit rubbed. Internally NF with binding tight ; Decorative boards with black linear design. Bold gilt spine lettering. ; 8vo; 422 pages
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HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS

By: Tyndall, John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1873

Seller ID: 3679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Faint occasional foxing. Book gapping at pp. 229 (but holding strongly together) ; Decorative boards with black linear design and bright gilt spine lettering. Frontispiece and 6 illustrations; 8vo; 473 pages
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THE WHITE TOWER

By: Ullman, James Ramsey

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1945

Seller ID: 3697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Front hinge weakening; Beautiful pictorial endpapers in color; 8vo; 479 pages
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