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1934This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 11-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Kidnapping of John S. Labatt; many international stories; Saanich will hold 65th annual fair in September; Cameron Lake photo; Photo of Father Bernard R. Hubbard mountain climbing in Alaska; Editorial page; Large ad for Standard Furniture Co.; Razing of main classroom structure of Corrig College in Victoria; Vacation page; photo of Dr. William Beebe and his steel diving ball; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
1989Features: Explorers Club members help select the "Seven Underwater Wonders of the World"; High Points of Climbing in the Alps; Nepal's Karnali Zone - Land without Rice; Mountains in Crisis - Man Vs. Nature; The cutting edge of low technology - pack animals; Galapagos Gourmets and Gourmands; A Benediction for Voyager 2. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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
1918Features: Aerial Possibilities of 1918 (story); Aerial activity from Flanders to the Adriatic; Physical fitness Guarded in Trench & Dug-out; Where Snowy Winter is called a temporary truce; With General Marshall's men in Mesopotamia; From the Field of Conflict to the Camp of Care; Brought to the fore by Revolution in Russia; New Light on the True Inwardness of Bolshevism (story by Hamilton Fyfe); Behind the lines in lands of Beauty and Romance; Protective Colouring and Pyrotechnics in War; Some thrilling episodes in the story of the Light Cruisers (story); Below-Deck Heroes Daily Brave unseen danger - photos of the 'black squad' feeding the boilers with coal; Aspects of Sir Edmund Allenby's Palestine Army; American Soldiers enter sternly into action; Emergencies in Frontier Fighting in the East; Mountain Climbing in the Mahsud Campaign; Active Women Wield the Woodman's Axe and saw; Keepting the ways clear with constant work; The 7th Canadian Infantry (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1909Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
1948Stories: Through the Swiss Alps in a wheel chair; Operation Fort Ross; village life in India; the passenger; last voyage; brand of the tomahawk; island skipper; the climbing tiger; eight thousand dollars; an African Houdini; new chums luck. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. 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
1947Stories: The Christmas Tree Derby; The Last of the Conquistadores; Solving Five Thousand Mysteries; Climbing under a Mountain; Searching for Smith; The Land of Mud Castles; South Sea Sugar; We Covered the Water-Front; Shark Hunting; The Spell; Mystery Moths; The Pursuit of the Breelong Blacks. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1967Contents: Color Smirnoff ad features Frankenstein; The Vietnam War - with air photo of Thai Nguyen Steel Complex before bombing; Picture of Jimmy Hoffa entering Lewisburg Penitentiary with coat over his handcuffs; Arlen Specter; Haight-Ashbury; The Mind of China - Time Essay; Photo of Svetlana & "Papochka" (Joseph) Stalin circa 1940; Mountain Climbing; Fran Tarkenton; Color photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Photo of Canadian CF-104 downed by a goose; Air Force SV-5D; The Redgrave Sisters - feature article with photos; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. One page loose but present. Book
195066 pages. Features: 12 Hours with 6009 - watch this NYC engine as it is readied for the run, then ride the cab for the 403 fleeting miles - great photos and write-up; Burlington Route relocates 13.4 miles of line as Federal Government constructs new dam on the Big Horn River in Wyoming - article and photos; To Alaska Someday - The Great Pacific Eastern - a structly rural steam and diesel road in British Columbia - excellent photos, maps and article; Photo Section includes wonderful shot of sunbeams inside the concourse of Grand Central Station, New York, centerfold photo of a Union Pacific freight climbing Sherman Hill, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'; Millions for Signals - "Either slow down your streamliners or intall more signals", says Interstate Commerce Commission - long article with photos; The Morristown & Erie Railroad - article and photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1972130 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - Escape; How to look where you're going and beat the luggage wait; The One-bag traveller and - the perfect knit pants suit; the longer shirt-jacket; the chino shirtdress, the weightless creaseless, everywhere, every-weather smock coat; Fashion for the beach climates of the world - cool and breezy crinkle cottons, new wave of batik, the strapless maillot, news in black; The New Norells - worn by Lyn Revson; The Many Moods of Marisa - the best new evening looks in town - worn by Marisa Berenson; Focus on summer - super new shirt looks, bareness with separate cover, black and white, jacketed for town, warm-weather sweater-dressing; How to add travel power without adding pounds - a quick beauty checklist; Your Health and Climate, by Ellen Switzer; How to solve your unsolvable hair problems - or, Why Wigs ; How to take your good looks wherever you go; How Sophia Loren Really Travels; Social Climbing the Travel Way, by George Bradshaw; Travel Anxiety - a psychologist tells how not to suffer it; Vladimir Nabokov talks about his travels; How people really travel now - Drena Van Alen, Lady Sarah Courage, Madame Helene Rochas, Lady Diana Cooper, Contessa Susanna Agnelli, Principessa Irene Galitzine, Catherine Spaak, Mrs. Kenneth Tynan, Jose Luis de Vilallonga; La Duchesse d'Uzes, Mrs. David Michael Winton, Diana Guthrie, Mrs. Isobel de Crempien, Maggie Keswick, Diane Sawyer; People are Talking About - Virgil Thomson; In China Now - Sally Reston tells what to see, buy, watch for; New Life-Force in the Midwest, by Seymour Krim; Giorgio de Chirico - inverview by John Gruen; At Home the New Roman Way - a power of American Art; Horoscope of Charles Chaplin; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
1994Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. With over thirty walks covering the 'Munros' in Wales showing photographs, sketches, maps and descriptions of the mountain walking routes. All are around Snowdon and they cover the Carneddau, Tryfan and the Glyders and the Snowdon range itself.
rif. 5i4797verschiedene Verlage verschiedene Orte 1945-1996. ca. 4000 Seiten mit Fotos und Abbildungen Papbände. - Text Englisch / Enthalten: K2: the 1939 tragedy / A History of Mountain climbingK2 The Price of Conquest / Americans on Everest / When men and mountains meet / Freedom climbers / Rimo Mountains on the silk road / High in the Thin cold air Everest. South West Face / The Six Mountain - Travel Books / The adventures of a mountaineer / Forerunners to Everest / Last days / Mountains and Men / To the Unknown Mountain / Stories off the Wall / Two Mountains and a River / High Mountains & Cold Seas - unknown
1980No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 172pp. Beginning with an account of the history of climbs in the area, the book goes on to describe climbs on Gimmer Crag, White Ghyll, Pavey Ark, Raven Crag, Bowfell Buttress and Deer Bield Crag.
1986Book is in excellent condition with slightly scuffed covers and lightly bumped page-end corners. Binding is solid and square, covers and spine are creaseless, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Signed by author on half title page. 175 pages with a great many large color photos. Chapters include Mckinley, Aconcagua (Argentina), Elbrus & Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Carstensz (Australasia).
19028vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 21 fine photographic plates in gravure (all original tissue guards present), 20 smaller photographs as chapter heads and 10 maps in the text, endpapers mildly browned; original pale green buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), joints very lightly rubbed, short split in paper of upper hinge (but binding entirely sound), a well-preserved, bright, cleam, crisp copy. With the engraved bookplate of Herbert Cooke on front paste-down. One of the greatest Alpine memoirs. Moore climbed with Whymper and Horace Walker, and was a member of the party which made the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge. Originally published privately in 1867 in an edition of 100 copies. The plates are remarkable for their extensive and detailed captions. Moore's later diaries, currently unpublished, are held by the Alpine Club. Neate *535; Perret 3086 'edition la plus interessante pour l'alpiniste'.
1943rif. 131642Basel: Verlag Gaiser & Haldimann 1943. 101, (2) Seiten u. 8 Kunstdrucktafeln. Mit Abbildungen im Text u. auf den Tafeln. Original-Halbleinwand-Einband. (Einband gering verblasst. Gutes Exemplar). 22x14 cm
1999rif. 2090202118107243Kodansha 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kodansha paperback
rif. 24460Plat oblong au format 26 x 16 cm., décoré par le regretté dessinateur Mix et Remix.
in-8°, 39+201p., ill. en noir et en couleurs, cartes, broché, couverture illustree Bel exemplaire. [109B-11] Text in French - English - Dutch - German
in-8, 216 pages, tres nombreuses illustrations (la plupart en couleurs), broché, couverture illustrée.- Edition originale. Bel exemplaire. [MI-23]
1987In 8, cm 19 x 25, pp. 160 con moltissime illustrazioni fotografiche. Testo che raccoglie considerazioni e racconti del grande alpinista, citazioni di molti altri arrampicatori nel tentativo di fare il punto sull'alpinismo del momento, le gare d'arrampicata ecc.
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]
1976rif. WOC-1321Traduit de l'allemand par Monique Bittebière. Nombreuses illustrations. Reinhold Messner 1976 et Librairie Arthaud 1977. In-8 (20x15,5cm) broché à rabat, plat supérieur orné de portraits. 253pp.
in-8°, 111 pp., nombreux dessins n&b, broche, couv. illustree. Etat d'usage (passages soulignes). [CA33-4]
