572 risultati
19488vo., 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.
19998vo., First Edition, with 65 coloured plates on 24, 22 monochrome plates on 8, several maps (a number full-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
19558vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece and 30 plates; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Izzard covered the 1953 Everest expedition for the Daily Mail newspaper. This work was first published in the US in 1954. The UK edition is uncommon in the dustwrapper. Neate 405.
19468vo., Fourth Impression, with frontispiece and 16 plates; original red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. First published in 1943. See Neate 468
1947Roy. 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.
19674to., First Edition, with very numerous fine photographs throughout; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Neate 643.
19468vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 59 plates on 46 and 7 full-page maps in the text; original blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-browned and chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Written from a Japanese POW camp at Singapore, Russell's classic account records summer camps with New Zealand pioneer A.P.Harper, experiences in Jan Mayen and the Arctic, and an expedition to the Karakoram-Himalaya under Shipton. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate R98.
19488vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Neate 835.
19578vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and well-illustrated account of Snowdon, Snowdonia and its climbers during the 'golden age'. Uncommon in this condition. Neate 943.
19518vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 33 plates and 12 maps (7 double-page); original green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF VICTOR WILKINSON DIX ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN . A keen alpinist, Dix was Professor of Surgery at London University Hospital. he finest guide of the period to the high level circuits and routes of the Alps, and still a most useful compendium today. Neate 864.
19538vo., with 32 plates (a number double-page), several maps in the text and mounted folding map printed in colours; original wrappers printed in red and black, all edges uncut, PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a very good, clean copy in the pictorial dustwrapper, the latter a little worn and frayed at extremities. 'Collection Supervivium', 16, with publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The original account of the first conquest of Annapurna.
19864to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page); blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written and sumptuously illustrated account of the author's four expeditions to the world's highest peak.
19738vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19754to., First English Edition, with coloured frontispiece and plates, and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated with route maps and descriptions. Neate 645.
20018vo., 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.
19738vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many double- or full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hodder & Stoughton, [1991]
19588vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges.
19838vo., 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.
18828vo., Second Edition, Third Thousand, with 13 woodcuts in the text, small inoffensive label scars to front free endpaper; original green arches-style cloth, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, small skilful repair to bottom of backstrip, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated January 1882) bound in at end. The woodcut illustrations are by George Darwin, the author's son. The first printing of the first edition was in Vol. IX of the Journal of the Linnean Society of London (dated 1867 but issued in 1865). The second edition, the first in book form (greatly revised and enlarged) was published in 1875 with a second 'Thousand' (actually only 500 copies) in the following year. The present edition is the first to carry the author's appendix to the Preface, and a five-line list of errata on last leaf of Contents. Since these refer to author's errors rather than to literals and remain uncorrected through subsequent reprintings from stereos, this represents the final text of the work. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman (Darwin), 222; Freeman (BNHB), 909.
19618vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned, and rubbed and creased at extremities.
1934Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 49 plates (one in photogravure with original tissue guard), 14 diagrams of routes in the text and 2 large folding coloured maps; cloth series binding of red cloth lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. The first edition is elusive in this condition.
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.
19518vo. 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.
19528vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, numerous plates and illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1934.
19548vo., 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.
