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1895271 pages. Tissue-protected black and white photographic frontis portrait of 'The Old Low House'. "When I rejoined the Alpine Club last winter, after some years of absence from that most pleasant society, it was suggested that I should collect and publish some of my papers on Alpine subjects which appeared thirty years ago and more in various periodicals. That is the excuse for the present little book." - from Preface. Chapters include: How we slept at the Chalet des Chevres, How we mounted the Oldenhorn, How we did Mont Blanc, Ice-caves of Annecy, A winter excursion in Switzerland, A night with a salmon, The Chateau in the Ardennes, The Engadine, Archaeological frauds in Palestine, Collecting Ancestors, Pontresina. Above-average wear to maroon boards. Gilt lettering upon backstrip clearly legible. Prior owner's signature upon front free endpaper. Discolouring to portions of last few pages due to moisture - all text remains legible. Large faded area on back board due to moisture. Hairline crack along front hinge. Back hinge starting at top. Book
19198vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers mildly browned; original green cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip dulled (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Neate 7.
19088vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and a plate; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, covers unevenly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. The first, and perhaps deceptively humble, appearance of a rock-climbing classic; in its plea for conservation it is decades before its time. It was several times reissued in various forms, but never as attractively as in this, its original binding. Neate 680.
19474to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 80 fine plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Neate 661.
VG/VG First edition unprice-clipped. No significant fault with book or dj save that there are isolated light felt tip marks in text, but the text remains readable. No loss, but reflected in price. Octavo 196pp with many expedition photographs. Delightful accounts of the ascent of Everest by the first british woman to do so
1972Best.-Nr. 2090202118000002Mainichishinbunsha 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Mainichishinbunsha paperback
2003Very Good English Paperbacck. Folio. (32 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 87, [2] p., color photos. Oo! Mountains: Untamed sons of mother nature.= Daglar, daglar: Doganin asi çocuklari.
19544to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout, endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial boards blocked with regional map in blue, boards lightly browned at extremities, a bright working copy in unclipped but heavily browned dustwrapper. Effectively the pictorial complement to Hunt's standard 'The Ascent of Everest'. The majority of the stunning photographs appear here for the first time. Neate 395.
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.
G (original blue cloth with dark blue mountain scene in line on front board, slightly faded especially on spine which is a little 'soft'. Slight foxing to endpapers, minimal wear) Third issue. Octavo 292pp illustrated. Describes a traverse of the Eastern Alps from Bludenz to Zell am See, made in the Summer of 1935
1987Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 258, [2] p., b/w plates. Turkish mountaineers in Pamir Mountains. Pamir'de Türk dagcilari.
1894Best.-Nr. 140857Bern. Schmid, Francke & Co. 1894. Vielfach gefaltetes Panorama. Aufgefaltet im Format 24 x 211 cm
1894Best.-Nr. 140856Bern. Schmid, Francke & Co. 1894. Vielfach gefaltetes Panorama in Farblithographie. Aufgefaltet im Format 18,5 x 315 cm (Geringe Gebrauchsspuren).
Hardcover in-folio oblong, 172 pages, tres nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, la plupart à pleine page (certaines dépliantes), cartes, cartonnage de l"editeur sous jaquette illustrée et emboitage illustrée.— Edition originale. Très bel exemplaire. [P-17] Edition trilingue Français - Anglais - Allemand.
1966Best.-Nr. ABE-1664378202793136 PAGES-EN COUVERTURE; THE ROLLING STONES-LE BUCHER DES CATHARES BRULE TOUJOURS, 4P-LA COUPE DAVIS A LA FRANCE, SUJET DE 6 PAGES SUR LE SUCCES FRANÇAIS DE 1927 ET L'APRES CARRIERE DES "MOUSQUETAIRES"-L'ANGLETERRE AUX CHEVEUX LONGS, SUJET DE 16 PAGES SUR LA JEUNESSE ANGLAISE,2 PHOTOS DE MOYRA SWAN PAR DAVID BAILEY-LA GLOIRE DU CHEVAL,17 PAGES, NOMBREUSES PHOTOS-JOHN HARLIN PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR LA PAROI QUI VA LE TUER, 3P-LE BAISER HISTORIQUE DU PAPE A L'EGLISE ANGLICANE, 2P-AUFRAY LE REVOLTE: DES PHOTOS QUI ETONNERONT SES FANS, 2P-ANN MARGRET: SON SOURIRE VAUT BIEN UN MEDECIN, 2P
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.
18598vo., Second Edition, with a mounted chromolithographed frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards save one present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps (one of two short tears in folds), neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary recto; attractively bound in late nineteenth century half calf BY SMART OF GLOUCESTER, marbled boards, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved binder's ticket on front paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate 18.
19328vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 15 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper, half-title and title lightly spotted; original terracotta plain cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, upper joint fractionally rubbed at headband else a very good, bright, firm copy. This copy has the upper board plain rather than gilt-blocked. Comprises selections from Volume I-V of the Alpine Journal. Neate 22.
18598vo., Fourth Edition, with mounted chromolithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps; original terracotta diced cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the contemporary trace ticket of Sanders of Upper Tooting on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate *18.
1935121 pages. Average wear. Modest external soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Donostia, ELKAR, 2002. Nombroses il·lustracions en color i b/n. 323p. 4t. Cartoné editorial amb sobrecoberta il·lustrada. Molt bon exemplar.
1989Best.-Nr. 24504Genève, Course de l'Escalade, 1989. Plaque émaillée au format 12 x 17 cm., illustrée par Exem. Trou circulaire au bord supérieur, pour la mettre au mur (en attendant d'être sur le vôtre, elle est sur le nôtre).
1988Best.-Nr. 24603Genève, Course de l'Escalade, 1988. Plaque émaillée au format 12 x 17 cm., illustrée par Exem. Trous circulaires aux coins, pour la mettre au mur (en attendant d'être sur le vôtre, elle est sur le nôtre).
1990Best.-Nr. 24604Genève, Course de l'Escalade, 1990. Plaque émaillée au format 12 x 17 cm., illustrée par Exem. Trous circulaires aux coins, pour la mettre au mur (en attendant d'être sur le vôtre, elle est sur le nôtre).
2013Best.-Nr. 477Genève, 2013. Plat oblong au format 26 x 16 cm., décoré par l'illustratrice Adrienne Barman.
