572 risultati
19788vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1993Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated anthology, including detailed registers of successful and failed attempts.
19998vo., First Edition, text in red and black; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
20008vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Omnibus volume containing the original trilogy: I Chose to Climb (1966), The Next Horizon (1973) and The Everest Years (1986).
19773 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with coloured and monochrome plates and maps; cloth (blue/brown/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. First volume with personal armorial bookplate on front free endpaper. The trilogy comprises: I Chose to Climb (sixth impression, 1977), The Next Horizon (first impression, 1973) and The Everest Years (first impression, 1986). Neate 90, 94 (first and second volumes respectively).
19678vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written biography of the 'father of modern mountaineering', who disappeared on Nanga Parbat in 1895. Neate 854.
19498vo., with photographs and full-page map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1947.
19738vo., Fourth Impression, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's first book, originally published in 1966. Includes his first major Scottish climb in 1953, the first British ascent of the Eigerwand, first steps in the Himalaya and the Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia. Neate 90 (recording the first edition).
1948Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 109 fine plates and double-page map in red and black, title mildly spotted, lengthy inscription on half-title. Pale green cloth,upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes technical data on the photographs. See Neate 626.
1938Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 75 fine plates in monochrome, title very lightly spotted; oatmeal buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Covers the European Alps and the Himalayas.
1948Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous full-page illustrations in the text, a few small marginalia, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; original olive cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, radial corners, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19278vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 17 [of 18] plates (missing plate supplied in photofacsimile) and double-page map; original burgundy ribbed cloth, upper board letterd in white, gilt back, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Wanting the plate 'Mount Buckland' at p.190 (missing plate supplied in photofacsimile). With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE. Neate 180.
19598vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at rear panel and two short closed tears. The story of the ill-fated 1957 expedition on Haramosh in the Karakorum. SCARCE. Neate 58.
19638vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps coloured in outline; original grey tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in red, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960-61, which includes a search for the yeti and an attempt on Makalu. Published a year after the US edition. Neate 371.
19138vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure, 7 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), 15 coloured plates (all original tissue guards present) and numerous plates in monochrome, fore-edge mildly spotted, some light and scattered spotting to text, wanting rear free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, tan endpapers, small pull at headband else a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.
19138vo., First Edition thus, text in French, with numerous plates, and illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, maroon cloth sides, back with flat gilt bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, green endpapers, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean copy.
19128vo., First Edition thus, text in French, with numerous plates, and illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, maroon cloth sides, back with flat gilt bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, green endpapers, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean copy.
19328vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates, small neat signature on front paste-down; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. First publication in book form of articles from Alpine Journal 1900-1931 relating to his climbs with Hope. Neat 423.
19278vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous fine photographs, some very light and occasional marginal browning, light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original green buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *302.
18898vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates and illustrations in the text, and 2 folding maps (one coloured; one coloured in outline); pictorial cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, covers very lightly faded else a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the armorial bookplate of Harry Robert Sauve Pulman on front paste-down. Not recorded by Neate.
19508vo., Third Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1940. Neate 735.
19348vo., with frontispiece, 101 plates and 9 folding maps in blue; original series binding of terracotta cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, brown buckram back lettered in gilt, brown top, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper.
19578vo., First Edition thus, with coloured portrait frontispiece, numeroud plates in monochrome and many maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top a little faded, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper. Covers the Swiss ascent of Everest and the first ascent of Lhotse. Published a year after the German version. Neate 240.
19258vo., First Edition, with plates toned in blue, some light marginal spotting; green cloth, gilt back, dark top, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. The author failed to complete his degree, but founded the Oxford University Mountaineering Club, and the Alpine Ski Club. Neate 471.
18998vo., Fourth Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 6 plates by Whymper; maroon cloth, boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, black endpapers, joints lightly rubbed and case a litle shaken else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. First published in 1871. This edition includes minor textual corrections and the first Index. Neate *839.