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Price: $115.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. , Ltd.: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 12384
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 View more info
By: Barnes, Malcolm
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1955
Order Number: 3735
Condition: Very Good+
Bookplate and small stamp on front endpaper; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 208 pages View more info
By: Barnes, Malcolm
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1961
Order Number: 3739
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 View more info
By: Barnes, Malcolm
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1964
Order Number: 3740
Condition: Very Good
Fore edge stamped. Bookplate and stamp on front endpaper; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 239 pages View more info
By: Barnes, Malcolm
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1955
Order Number: 18591
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 View more info
By: Child, Greg
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 15900
ISBN: 0375506098
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 View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 1847
Condition: Very Good
Boards a bit browned and with one small dampstain ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 159 pages View more info
Price: $675.00
Publisher: London, Cassell: 1902
Order Number: 2209
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 View more info
By: Davidson, Bob
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Winchester, Hampshire (england), Zoe Books Limited: 1993
Order Number: 18403
Condition: Very Good+
Great 20th Century Expeditions; Ex-Library; 8vo; 32 pages View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1958
Order Number: 18054
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 View more info
By: Fellowes, P. F. M. , Et Al
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, John Lne the Bodley Head Limited: 1934
Order Number: 17169
Condition: Very Good
Spine sunned, front board partially sunned; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 264 pages View more info
Price: $102.88
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927
Order Number: 13712
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 View more info
By: Gurtner, Othmar
Price: $70.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1954
Order Number: 3736
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Some rubbing to DJ ; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 224 pages View more info
By: Gurtner, Othmar
Price: $70.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1955
Order Number: 3737
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Some rubbing to DJ ; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 222 pages View more info
By: Gurtner, Othmar; Kurz, Marcel
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1956
Order Number: 3738
Condition: Very Good+
Spine sunned. Bookplate; Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 200 pages View more info
By: Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A. ; & Simonson, Eric R.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Seattle, The Mountaineers Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 16400
ISBN: 0898866995
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 View more info
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By: Herzog, Maurice
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1952
Edition: Book Club Edition
Order Number: 17008
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 View more info
By: Hunt, John
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 16948
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 View more info
By: Hunt, Sir John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 18402
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 View more info
By: Hunt, Sir John
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 18303
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 View more info
By: Knight, Max
Price: $50.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Earth:
Order Number: 18630
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Nd [1976]. A masterpiece - with photographs by Gerhard Klammet; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages View more info
By: Knight, Max
Price: $30.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Earth:
Order Number: 19206
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 View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1978
Order Number: 17254
ISBN: 0670653748
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Author Matthiessen travels to Nepal with biologist George Schaller in the hope of ascending the Crystal Mountain and of seeing the elusive snow leopard ; 8vo; 338 pages View more info
By: Noyce, Wilfrid
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: 1955
Edition: Second Edition
Order Number: 17185
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
B&W Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages View more info
By: Ralston, Aron
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Atria Books: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 18400
ISBN: 0743492811
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
8vo View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing: 2002
Order Number: 15069
ISBN: 0740729500
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 View more info
Price: $16.58
Publisher: Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing: 2002
Order Number: 16135
ISBN: 0740729500
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 View more info
By: Read, Piers Paul
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1974
Order Number: 3692
Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
DJ with some small, open tears; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 352 pages View more info
By: Tyndall, John
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1873
Edition: First Edition
Order Number: 3682
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 View more info
By: Tyndall, John
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1873
Edition: First American Edition
Order Number: 3679
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 View more info
