Mountaineering

Bewick, Thomas: (1753-1828) History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 containing the description and history of land birds etc. Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson; Edward Walker 1797; 1804, 1804. 2 vols. 8vo. xxx, [ii], 335, [1]; xx, 400 pp. With 233 cuts of birds in the text. Contemporary half-polished calf over boards, spine gilt; an excellent copy with respect to the interior of the book. Unfortunately the board is detached and nearly off. This copy is signed by Henry Oates and presented to him by his Aunt Ann Rayner in Dec. 1797. Ascended from Joseph Henry Oates to Lawrence (Titus) Oates who accompanied Scott on his expedition to the South Pole.
First edition, second issue as shown by the presence of the words "Wycliffe, 1791" from the figure of the sea eagle on p. 11 of Volume I. Mottled calf over paper boards with some damage to the leather on volume one and volume two. Occasional spotting but otherwise a nice clean and internally bright copy. This is a very… Read More

Harry N Abrams, New York, 1971. 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case (as slight fading to top and bottom of front cover of slip case). Covers the Nepal, Punja, Sikkim and Hindu Kush Himalayas. Very large format edition, cream boards with black and red titling, colour photo-pictorial DJ, in black cloth board wrap-around slipcase with Japanese-style clasps and paper title label glued to front cover. 248-full page illustrations in full colour and 6 fold-out colour plates, 6 maps and diagrams. Please note that this is an oversized and very heavy item and thus postage will be more than that quoted as default. [Neate S72]

New York: Lyons & Burford, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. SIGNED by author on the short title page. The book measures 234mm tall x 155mm, and has 180 pages. CONDITION: The book is in fine condition. Previous owner name penned to corner of first blank page, otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding, clean. The dust jacket has some of the usual sunning to the spine, no chips, no tears, clean, complete with unclipped flap corners.

London: John Murray, 1899. Fourth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 1899 Fourth Edition. Inscribed by Whymper "Presented by the author" along the top edge of the front wrapper. Whymper usually inscribed these guidebooks in this manner. The handwriting is an exact match to other examples by Whymper. Bound in new grey cloth harcover with black lettering spine. Original front and rear covers of the book have been bound inside at the front and end of the new binding (after new fly leafs). Complete with all pages, illustrations, and maps. New covers are in fine condition. The original paper covers have some corner wear, but a generally clean and not rubbed. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages. Solid binding. A little foxing in margins of pages where folded maps or folded illustrations are present. Minor foxing on three other pages. All other pages are free of foxing. The book measures 195mm tall x 127mm, 205 pages (+ 44 pages of advertisements), 60 engravings, 2 city… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST USA EDITION. SIGNED by Ernst Reiss on the photo opposite page 145 that shows Reiss, Luchsinger and von Gunten on the Lhotse face below the couloir that leads to the summit. Reiss along with Luchsinger made the first ascent of Lhotse described in this book. Original blue boards, silver lettering spine. Generally nice condition, clean covers, tight binding, complete with all pages & photo plates, no previous owner marks or writing on any page other than the signature of Reiss, no foxing. The dust jacket has edge wear, some soiling rear panel, 1cm chip upper rear corner. This book has 222 pages, 31 b/w photos, color frontispiece, 2 maps, 1 route diagram, index. The leader's account of the Swiss expedition that in 1956 made the 1st ascent of Lhotse (8511m by Ernst Reiss & Fritz Luchsinger via Geneva Spur & the Reiss Rinne) & made 2nd & 3rd ascents of Everest (2nd by… Read More

London: William Kimber, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. The book is in near fine condition with clean covers, no fading, very minor rubbing tips corners, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding. The uncommon dust jacket is much better than average for this book where nearly all have faded spine. This jacket has light to medium spine fading, surface flecking at spine ends, clean and complete. Very collectible condition. The book measures 222mm tall x 139mm, and has 199 pages + 8 pages ads, EP maps, 9 b/w photos. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

london: Heinemann, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Loosely inserted is a postcard from the 1972 European Mt Everest Expedition where Whillans was one of the lead climbers. The card was mailed from Everest Base Camp and is signed by Whillans and 12 other climbers including Hamish MacInnes (renowned Scottish mountaineer & author & ropemate of Whillans), Felix Kuen (hard winter climbs in Alps, 2nd ascent Rupal Face Nanga Parbat), & the expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer. The book is in nice condition with clean covers that are not spotted (many copies have spotting to covers), no previous owner marks or writing on pages, solid binding, foxing and browning to edges of text-block, faint foxing on a few pages but nearly all pages without foxing. The original dust jacket has minor edge and corner flecking, no chunks missing, no tears, price-clipped flap corner. The Everest expedition postcard has a bump at one corner with a… Read More

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1957. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Original tan cloth with red lettering spine. Book is in fine condition with some fore-edge foxing and a little foxing in margins of a few pages, mainly near the front. The binding is tight and solid. There are no creased or torn pages. There are no previous owner marks, no writing, no stamps, no underlining on any pages. Handsigned & dated autograph of Herbert Tichy is tipped-in on the pre-title page (like an errata slip, not fully pasted down, only pasted at hinge). The original dust jacket is in nice condition with no tears and no chips. The DJ has darkening of the spine and the inside front flap corner is clipped. The very ends of the spine of the DJ are lightly rubbed. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED (NOT GENERIC STOCK PHOTOS).

London: David Bogue, 1853. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST PRINTING of the First UK Edition. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Rebound in light brown cloth with leather corners & spine, gilt lettering and rules spine. Note on EP states it was rebound in 1909. Some rubbing corners, clean, blank side of frontis has foxing and heavy soiling but the image side is relatively clean (a few tiny black spots) and with quite bright coloring compared to most, light foxing on title page and some old prices penned on the title page, minor foxing on some other pages, brown smudge marks on two facing pages (see photo), solid binding. The book measures 188mm tall x 121mm, and has 219 pages + 8 pages of ads, coloured frontispiece, b/w title vignette, 22 b/w in-text engravings, 1 smaller in-text vignette of a locket, 5 chapter heading vignettes. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.

London: W. M. Thompson, 1882. Fifth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Walton, Elijah. The illustrations are particularly attractive to alpine enthusiasts since they include mountain backgrounds by the famous alpine artist. Very scarce. 5th edition (same contents & size as first edition but different colored binding), 335mm tall x 241mm, viii + 12 chromolithograph plates each mounted on thick stock paper (blank verso), each followed by a page of descriptive text (blank versos), each chromolithograph page is preceded by a thin blank protective page. Complete with all pages and plates. NOT ex-library, previous owner name penned to the first blank protective page (blank page before first illustrated plate). AEG, original blue cloth covers, rebacked with new navy cloth spine with gilt lettering (Walton's books almost always fall apart and need rebacking), new EPs, highly gilt decorated patterns front cover, matching patterns in blind on rear cover,… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, And Co., 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST EDITION. The book measures 23cm tall x 14cm, and has pages xv + [1] blank + 572 + 36 (publisher's catalog), photogravure frontis portrait of the author & 14 other full page plates, 64 in-text illustrations, 6 maps (3 in color, 2 are fldg), 14 engraved plates, index. Account of early expedition attempt to climb Kilimanjaro in 1884. Johnston claims to have reached approximately 4973m. rebound in red cloth in style similar to original binding with original illustrated front cover retained as front cover of new binding, black & white illustration of Kilimanjaro on front cover, black lettering front cover, black coated EPs. previous owner name faintly penned on blank side of frontis, scotch tape (tape itself is long gone) yellowish stain at gutter of frontispiece & title page (frontis was obviously once held in place by scotch tape), minor foxing on plates only, binding tight, covers &… Read More

Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D.. Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates. 'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904. Background Information: Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The… Read More

London: Hopkinson, 1936. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering spine. The book is in nice condition with slight darkening to spine, no previous owner marks or writing on pages, minor foxing on title page and two preliminary pages (other pages have no foxing), solid & tight binding, folding map at rear has two small brown spots (see photo) & map pocket has a tissue repaired tear. The uncommon original dust jacket has tiny loss at spine ends and corner tips, 2cm tear upper front, 4cm tear lower front flap crease with some browning along the tear, 3cm tear upper rear, 15mm & 10mm tear lower rear. The book measures 222mm tall x 14mm, and has 244 pages, 24 b/w photos, glossary of place-names, large folding color map in rear pocket, index, errata slip on page 236. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Washington DC National Geographic Society, 1997. Signed by Ed Viesturs and Spanish Climber Araceli Segarra, who has included a sketch of mountain peaks. First edition / First printing. Green boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An account of the 1996 IMAX Everest expedition led by David Breashears and Ed Viesturs. Featuring Beck Weathers, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Araceli Segarra, Paula Viesturs and others. Araceli Segarra was the first Spanish woman to summit at Mt Everest. She was part of the rescue team during the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster.

Berkeley, California:: Set in Motion Press,, 2020.. Edition of 39. 7 x 14"; Accordion-bound folios with pamphlet-stitched interior booklets. Letterpress printed with photopolymer plates and carved linoleum. Digitally printed inserts. Paper, made of cottom and flax ,is Moulin due Gué. Other papers are Zerkall Book, German Etching, and Curious Metallic. Typefaces used are Cheltenham, Kabel, Gill Sans, Futura and Bodoni. Drawings by the artist. Animal wildlife is vintage line art. The "Atlas Biographic" folio features images from the Library of Congress: "1877 Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado" surveyed by F. V. Hayden and photograph of a 19th century silver mine on Aspen Moutain. Bound in Iris bookcloth at corners with letterpress printed papers over boards. Numbered. Set in Motion Press: "Set in the precarious time of the 1920s, living on the brink of human-triggered catastrophe, two young people explore their relationship with naure amid hidden and… Read More