Search Results: Mountaineering from Walkabout Books

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 372 pp, with illustrations and index. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, large bookplate on front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket shows moderate edgewar and has a vertical spine crease. Includes discussion of Jesuit travelers in the Himalaya, exploration by British Army officers and surveyors, and, of course, the mountaineers.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp xv, 380, with folding map. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Cloth chipped at spine ends, corners rubbed through, front hinge a bit wobbly. Bookplate without owner's name on front pastedown, penciled ownership signature dated 1875 on front free endpaper. Map has tape repairs and some small losses and is slightly mis-folded. Neate W95: "Wilson journeyed from Simla to Kashir through Shingo La, Padum, Penze La, Dras and Zoji La in 1873.

London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 252 pp + publisher's ads, with 27 illustrations and a folding map, in original maroon cloth. Considerable rubbing to edges of boards, corners bumped, slight bleed of cloth color onto top edge of rear endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. Neate C99: After a quick ascent of Anconcagua, Conway attempted Sarmiento in Tierra del Fuego. This mountain resisted many attempts to reach its twin peaks, which were not climbed for another fifty years. This expedition marked the end of Conway's career as a serious mountainer....He was Alpine Club President 1902-04.

London: John Murray, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in English, translated from the third German edition by Erwin and Pleasaunce von Gaisberg; edited and with additional chapters by H.E.G. Tyndale. Edges of text block dust-soiled, spine ends sunned. Binding tight and square, text unmarked. No dust jacket. Neate (K33) says: "Memoirs of a great guide. In 1890 he made several difficult new climbs with Norman-Neruda, and in 1893 he participated in the first traverse of the Peuterey Arete on Mont Blanc. Overall he made dozens of new ascents and continued climbing until he died.

Harbor Springs, MI: Good Hart Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 306 pp, illustrated with line drawings. As new. Kasischke was a member of Rob Hall's ill-fated expedition during the 1996 Everest climbing season. According to the dust jacket, he offers "his perspective and analysis about what happened and what went wrong," and "his account differs markedly from what others have written."

David & Charles, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 288 pp, indexed, w/maps and color photographs. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Martin and his climbing partner Simon Jenkins completed the first ever traverse of all 75 "4000ers" in one continuous journey, covering more than 1000 KM and 70,000 meters of elevation in just 52 days.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1902. Hardcover. Very good. First trade edition of this work first published in 1867 in an edition of 100 copies for private circulation. pp xxxv, 444, with 10 maps and 22 photographic plates, in original publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Moderate rubbing to extremities, light foxing to endpapers; very good. Neate M137: "Moore made extensive Alpine tours in the years 1860-81 including this one with Whymper and Horace Walker in 1864. The Alpine Club holds his later unpublished diaries, parts of which were incorporated into the 1902 edition, including his account of the first ascent of the famous Brenva ice ridge on Mont Blanc.

Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956. Hardcover. Very good. Serie Orientale Roma, XII. 194 pp text + 82 plates, five maps in rear pocket. Upper corners heavily bumped, foxing to fore edge of text block. Binding sound, contents clean. The Amne Machin range is an eastern extension of the Kunlun Mountains. Per wikipedia, the "range runs in the general northwest-to-southeast direction in eastern Qinghai (Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the adjacent areas of the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture) and the southwestern corner of Gansu's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Neate R60: "Rock explored the region in 1926, including the gorges of the Yellow River and Gynd-par Range.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. First printing. 160 pp plus ads. Orange cloth binding stamped in black; no dust jacket. Minor soiling to rear board, spine slightly faded but fully legible, protected by a clear mylar jacket. The first book by the accomplished Alaskan mountaineer and alpine photographer, written when he was just 17 and developing his climbing skills in the Alps. Illustrated with photographs by the author, his brother, and their climbing guide. Neate W24.

New York: Macmillan, 1895. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. 306 pp, with folding Map of the Kingdom of Kashmir and many illustrations by the author. Lettering and illustration on cloth boards is quite faded, one crack in binding, scattered foxing, old dampstain and private library embossed stamp visible on title page. Good. Neate M03: "His own account of Conway's 1892 Karakoram Expedition. McCormick was a landscape artist and watercolorist who illustrated Conway's alpine books and other mountaineering books." McCormick describes his book in the preface as "a more personal narrative" in which he has "attemped to give an ida of the picturesque aspect of the expedition rather than of the geographical portion.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Translated from the Russian by Alex Brown. 270 pp, with 32 plates. Spine toned, some small stains on front board, owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Text clean, binding tight. No dust jacket. Neate R66: "Mt. Stalin was discovered in 1913. One of the official tasks of the 1933 Russian scientific expedition to the western Pamirs was the ascent of the peak.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Third edition. 185 pp, illustrated. Fine copy in a verygood dust jacket with moderate edgewear and a few small chips. This edition includes a new chapter updating the book (regarding new roads, tunnels, towns, dams, etc.) since its first publication in 1942. "The standard introduction to the Kosciusko Country," with a focus on skiing.

London and New York: Kaye & Ward and Oxford University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 143 pp, illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. Quarto (8-3/4" X 10-1/2"). Translated by Audrey Salkeld. Slight dust soiling to top edge, else fine, in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of wear. Messner was the first man to climb all 14 8000-meter peaks. Here he relates his experiences on such diverse faces as the Eiger North Face, Nanga Parbat South Face, Grand Jorasses Walker Spur, and Dhaulagiri South Face. Neate M86.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in pictorial cloth binding. Spine slanted, corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Neate C102: "The first major climbing expedition to the area. Conway's party made the first ascent of the south (highest) peak of Illimani (6402m) at the southern end of the range, and just failed to reach the summit of Ancohuma (6430m) at the northern end. They also prepared the first topographic survey of the range.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription ("A.W.B. December 18, 1918") on front free endpaper. Neate C102: "The first major climbing expedition to the area. Conway's party made the first ascent of the south (highest) peak of Illimani (6402m) at the southern end of the range, and just failed to reach the summit of Ancohuma (6430m) at the northern end. They also prepared the first topographic survey of the range.

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 288 pp, with two folding maps and 113 illustrations from photographs. Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza, Original dark red cloth with illustration of climbers on a steep slope on front board. Corners lightly bumped, some rubbing to edges of boards, spine lettering dulled. Binding tight, contents clean. The Workmans, an American husband and wife team, were wealthy, zealous, and energetic explorers who together made many expeditions to the Himalayas. Fanny, a suffragist as well as a bit of a publicity hound, made sure the world knew of her achievements as a pioneering female climber. (Among other achievements, she held the women's altitude record for 28 years after her conquest of 23,000-ft Pinnacle Peak in 1906.) Robinson (Wayward Women) amusingly describes her as having "practically battered the Karakorams into submission, first treading them over with her squat, hob-nailed figure and then… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. Second and preferred edition, with folding map. 25.5 cm, 283 pp. in original pictorial cloth boards, beautifully illustrated with 25 full-page photogravures and many additional illustrations in the text. Boards are lightly spotted, but still quite attractive; internally clean and sound. The topographical map, titled "Map of the Lake Louise Region Showing Part of the Summit Range of the Canadian Rocky Mountains" is laid in at the front and is in fine condition. The author was an early explorer of the Canadian Rockies who made several first ascents, including Temple, Aberdeen, Niblock, and Indefatigable. In a 1941 article in the American Alpine Journal, climber J. Henry Scattergood described the book as "delightful," praising Wilcox's "exquisite descriptions of Lake Louise, Valley of the Ten Peaks (then called by him Desolation Valley) and neighborhood." More recently, Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon wrote in Alpinist magazine (No. 50, 2015)… Read More

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 244 pp, illustrated with color photographs. Some rubbing to bottom edge. Binding tight, text unmarked. Signed by Perkins under her name on the title page, with two hearts drawn beneath. Dust jacket has light edgewear and a mild spine crease. Account of the author's life in climbing after a heart transplant.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1966. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Revised edition. 155 pp, with index, photographs, maps. Near fine copy in original pictorial cloth, slight spotting to top edge. Dust jacket has a few minor chips and tears. Edwards, who spent nine years as a seasonal ranger and naturalist at Glacier, provides descriptions of numerous peaks and routes, supplemented by general and area maps and 48 pages of photographs by Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde, Cedric Wright, Bob and Ira Spring, and others.

London: Titus Wilson and Son, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 159 pp, with 13 plates. Mild shelfwear; tight binding, no markings. Dust jacket is chipped at the corners and spine ends and has a few short, closed tears. "Climbing memoirs of a noted British alpinist between the wars. Written as a tribute to her guide and published posthumously by her friends" (Neate T22). Thompson was best known for a traverse of Mont Blanc from the Refuge Durier over the Aiguille de Bionnassay, with the first-ever descent of the Peuterey Ridge to the Gamba Hut.