Search Results: Authors starting with R from Barking Mad Books

ANNAPURNA II, Captain R Grant, William Kimber, London, 1961 1st edn., B&W plates, chipped jacket, piece missing from base of jacket spine, previous owner's signature fep, British military expedition involving Jimmy Roberts and Chris Bonington.
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THE MATTERHORN - Guido Rey, T Fisher Unwin, London, 1st edn., 2nd imp 1907, original mustard cloth boards (no fading) - cleaner/brighter than appears in photograph, leather title patch slightly chipped gilt titles good, internally VG+ foxing on endpapers only, lovely stuck-on plates with tissue guards complete -large format/heavy book. Rey's history of the Matterhorn a classic, first published in Italian 1904.
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CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON, Edward Rice, Scribner's, New York, 1st US edn., 1990, 522 page VG+ hardback, VG+ jacket, B&W plates, Riveting biography of Burton The secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and brought the Arabian Nights to the West...and much much more. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

FIVE MILES HIGH - The Story of an attack on the second highest mountain in the world, Robert Bates, Charlie Houston, Paul Petzoldt et al., Robert Hale, 1940. 1st UK edn. 319pp. B&W plates, folding chart. maps as endpapers, bright silver titles, original pink/maroon cloth, Good unfaded jacket with small piece missing and tape repairs -This 1939 expedition set the standards for American Himalayan mountaineering, the book is one of the classics of American climbing literature. More plates than the US edition published in New York the previous year - scarce with jacket, THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

EVEREST 1933 - Hugh Ruttledge, Inscribed by the author "Claude..from Hugh in memory of many climbs - May 1934" (Claude Butlin, Commander Royal Navy) Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1934. Hardcover, VG+. First U.K. Edition. 390 pp, 3 large fold-out maps, 1 other map, 3 diagrams, frontispiece with tissue-guard and 59 monochrome photographs. British expedition led by Ruttledge on north side of Everest reached over 28,000 ft. which was highest point achieved at the time. A classic account of this early Mount Everest mountaineering expedition from Tibet, with a team including Eric Shipton. Scarce original dustjacket in near perfect condition, almost no foxing, spine v slightly mottled spine relaid professionally, overall clean and tight inside,new endpapers, overall. VG
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