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1912ref. 009351The 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
ref. DADAX1575400235New unknown
2014ref. x-9401795347Springer 2014. Hardcover. New. 2015 edition. 231 pages. 9.40x6.60x1.00 inches. Springer hardcover
2016ref. x-9402402128Springer Verlag 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 252 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
18618vo., 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.
1963Features: 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
1952Features: 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
196282 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
196540 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
1961Features: 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
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1903ref. 9624Zurich, Institut Artistique, sous les auspices du Comité central, [1903]. In-folio à l'italienne de 12 pages suivies des planches, plein percaline bleue, dos muet, plats ornés de roulettes et fleurons en bleu, titre doré et rouge au premier plat, bords biseautés, gardes ornées. Quelques petites taches au second plat. Relié par A. Bouché à Genève.
1972ref. 11473H81032Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District in association with University of Lancaster Library. Book has been rebound in a library binding and is thus ex library but a great reading copy. well rebound. . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1972. Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District [in association with University of Lancaster Library hardcover
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19678vo., 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.
1916Roy. 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.
18818vo. 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.
1959ref. 2111902160700068Fels Climbing 1959. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Fels Climbing paperback
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ref. EXEJCC3cMoutier-Tarentaise, Ducloz, 1903. In-8 , vélin, couverture.
19578vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates and double-page map, contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Scholarly examination of the controversy surroung the first ascent. Incudes detailed chronological history 1762-1854. Neate *120.
19548vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, and numerous monochrome plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the armorial bookplate of Ian Vaughan-Arbuckle on front free endpaper. Vaughan-Arbuckle, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Logistics Corps, served in India, Hong Kong, Germany and the Falklands. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *364.
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