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London: Cassell & Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original navy boards, gilt lettering spine. Book is in fine condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, clean. Original dust wrapper is in find condition: complete, clean, no chips, no tears. Book measures 215mm tall x 13cm and has 200 pages. FICTION. Secret Cold War mission by NATO mountain troops from Kashmir into Chinese territory & Karakoram with good climbing episodes.
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THE FACE OF JALANATH
by Hardy, Ronald
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FOOTPRINTS ON THE PEAKS MOUNTAINEERING IN CHINA -- 1995 FIRST EDITION
by Zheng, Zhou & Liu Zhenkai
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Seattle: Cloudcap, 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1995 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original dust jacket is in flawless new condition. The book is in new condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, 100% clean, no rubbing, tight binding. This book was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book measures 235mm tall x 155mm, and has 228 pages, 6 maps, 41 b/w & 21 color photos, table of peaks above 6000m in China, bibliography, index. A most interesting history of mountaineering in China, from 743 A.D. to present, this book also describes the major peaks & ranges in Chinese territory. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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FORERUNNERS TO EVEREST THE STORY OF THE TWO SWISS EXPEDITIONS OF 1952 -- ADVANCE PROOF COPY of First UK Edition
by Dittert, Rene & Gabriel Chevalley & Raymond Lambert
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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. ADVANCE PROOF COPY of First UK Edition. Original simple blue paper covers with black lettering front cover. The cover has staining to spine and cover edges, some loss at top of spine, clean text block, no owner writing or marks on pages, no foxing, solid binding. The book includes a loose revised title page & color frontispiece along with the preface by John Hunt (these were eventually used in the final version -- the one bound into the proof is a preliminary version). The book measures 215mm tall x 138mm and has 256 pages and 24 b/w illustrations, 9 maps. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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FRANK FLAMMIA -- PAINTER -- "ART, THE TIE THAT BINDS
by ALLEN DODGE
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Printed in Eugene Oregon by QSL: Paines Corners Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. PATRICK FLAMMIA. FIRST EDITION. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering front cover and spine. Probably never issued with DJ. 27cm tall x 26cm, 39 full-page color paintings, color portrait photo, some smaller color illustrations. Biography and selection of paintings by renowned Coeur d'Alene Idaho artist and nature conservationist. Probably a very limited production. Included is a loose insert noting that the book is a gift from his widow to celebrate Patrick's life and art. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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FROM EVEREST TO THE SOUTH POLE -- SIGNED By George Lowe FIRST USA Edition of BECAUSE IT IS THERE
by Lowe, George
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. SIGNED on the title page by the author, George Lowe. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering cover & spine, white globe decoration front. Book is in fine condition with clean covers, bright gilt, bright pages, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, no crease marks on pages. Original dust jacket is present with some rubbing at corners and folds, crease mark along middle of spine, clipped front flap corner. Book measures 216mm tall x 139mm, and has 216 pages, 35 photos, 6 maps & plans. This is the first printing of the USA edition of the UK title, Because It Is There. Member & photographer on first ascent of Everest & Fuch's successful trans-Antarctic expedition. Account of these trips. Lowe led the carry to the highest camp (27900') on Everest and probably would have reached the summit if he had been given the chance. PHOTOS ARE…
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Far From Help! Backcountry Medical Care -- 1991 FIRST EDITION
by Steele, Peter
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Seattle: Cloudcap, 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. The book measures 222mm tall x 140mm, and has 191 pages, 26 b/w photos. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Fever Famine and Gold. The Dramatic Story of the Adventures and Discoveries of the Andes-Amazon Expedition in the Uncharted Fastnesses of a Lost World in the Llaganatis Mountains
by Loch, E. Erskine
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original red cloth with black lettering spine and small black pattern decoration front cover. The book is in good clean condition with some bumping to lower cover corners, clean, no fading, tight binding, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing. The uncommon original dust jacket is present: generally clean, tiny chipping to corner tips and spine ends, original printed price intact on flap corner. The book measures 210mm tall x 143m, and has 257 photos, 23 b/w photos, 2 maps. Scarce account of high adventure in Ecuador. 1935-37 expedition to Llanganatis Mountains in eastern Ecuador. Studies of Ssabella Indians, exploration of the Curaray River, determination of safe air route over the Andes, found lost Inca roads, searched for the famous, legendary lost mine & treasures of the Incas. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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The Field book of Mountaineering and Rock Climbing
by Lyman, Tom & Bill Riviere
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New York: Winchester Press, 1976. Second Printing (same format as first) . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. SECOND PRINTING of First Edition (same size, format, contents as first printing). Original blue cloth with silver lettering spine. The book is in fine condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, no foxing, clean, NOT ex-library. The original dust jacket is in nice condition but has two 5mm tears upper rear. The book measures 235mm tall x 154mm, and has 208 pages, many b/w photos & sketches, diagrams, index. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Fifty Classic Climbs Of North America -- HARDCOVER 1st USA Edition
by Roper, Steve & Allen Steck
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San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1979. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST USA EDITION. Original grayish tan cloth, gilt lettering cover & spine. The book is in nice condition with no marks, no rubbing, no previous owner's name or mark, no writing or marks on any pages (other than the signatures on the title page), no foxing, no folded or creased page corners, clean, tight binding, no fading. Original dust jacket has usual fading to spine, tiny loss at tips of corners, 8cm curving tear lower spine, 4cm straight tear upper spine, tiny 2mm deep x 16mm loss upper rear edge, price-clipped flap corner. The book measures 28cm tall x 21cm, and has 324 pages, many b/w photos, several maps, bibliography, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Filming The Impossible -- FIRST EDITION
by Dickinson, Leo
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original black boards with silver lettering spine. As new condition: no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, clean, no fading, no rubbing, clean, no foxing, tight binding, never used. The dust jacket is in new condition with no tears, no chips, no rubbing, no fading, clean. This book was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book measures 253mm tall x 166mm, and has 256 pages, 177 color & 2 b/w photos. Author made first film of climb of Eiger's N face, and made the film of the Messner-Habeler 1st ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen in 1978. Also includes climbing Cerro Torre, Patagonia, Dhaulagiri, Eiger solo, and canoeing the Dudh Kosi from Khumbu Glacier. Very well illustrated. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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First Across The Roof Of The World. The First-Ever Traverse Of The Himalaya-5000 Kilometers From Sikkim To Pakistan
by Dingle, Graeme & Peter Hillary
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Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984. Reprint. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 1984 large format paperback edition. The book is in new, never used condition. It was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book has no owner marks, no creasing, no soiling, no foxing, tight biding (never read). The book measures 255mm tall x 18cm, 232pp, maps, EP map, many color photos, 5 double-page photos. This is the same size with the same contents as the first printing. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World By the Members of the first American Karakoram Expedition -- FIRST USA EDITION
by Bates, Robert H. & Richard Burdsall & Charles Houston & Paul Petzoldt
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Elizabeth Farrand George. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. REBOUND in red cloth that closely matches the original, spine lettered in gilt closely matching the original, original map EPs preserved and placed in new cover exactly as they were in the original. BOOK CONDITION: covers are in new condition with no soiling, no rubbing, no fading. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages, NOT ex-library, tight binding, no foxing, no creased or folded pages, complete with no missing pages, no missing plates, no missing charts or maps, page 377 has two 15mm chips in outside margin (no loss of text), the map on the rear end-page has some rubbing and scuffs (see photo). As usual, LACKING the original dust jacket. Book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. USA edition has b/w photo frontispiece and…
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Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World By the Members of the first American Karakoram Expedition -- FIRST USA EDITION
by Bates, Robert H. & Richard Burdsall & Charles Houston & Paul Petzoldt
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Elizabeth Farrand George. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. LACKING the rare dust jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering spine. The spine cloth is faded and stained near the top with that stain extending to the upper rear cover. The spine lettering has darkened to brown. Spine ends are frayed with loss at the tips. The word, "morphine", penned on the top of the front pastedown, otherwise there are no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, pages are not stained or marked, no foxing, solid binding, complete with all pages and photos/maps, no restorations. Book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. USA edition has b/w photo frontispiece and 47 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. UK edition has b/w photo frontispiece and 33 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves.…
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Flowers From The Upper Alps, With Glimpses Of Their Homes
by Walton, Elijah & T. G. Bonney
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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,…
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Four Against Everest -- SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
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Englewood Cliffs: Printice-Hall, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Anonymously inscribed and SIGNED by Sayre on the title page "With best regards, Woodrow W. Sayre." Signed first printings of this book are very uncommon. Original greyish light blue cloth with black lettering spine, white mountain decoration front cover. Original dust jacket has some surface flecking at spine ends, some light crinkle marks upper front, 1cm deep chip loss at tip of upper front flap corner, complete with original price present on flap corner. The book is in generally nice condition with clean covers, a bit of browning at spine ends, tiny tight 5mm split in cloth at front joint near top of spine (barely detectable) . Contents are clean and bright, no foxing, no previous owner marks or writing (other than Sayre's signature) on any pages, tight binding, EPs not cracked, NOT ex-library, no crease marks on any pages. The book measures 235mm tall x 150m,…
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France -- SIGNED First Edition
by Lamb, Russell & Dan Harder
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Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing of First Edition. Inscribed & SIGNED by Russell Lamb on the title page. The book is in fine condition with former owner bookplate on the FFEP, no other owner marks or writing on any pages, very clean, tight binding, no foxing. The book is from the collection of Major William Hackett with his bookplate on the FFEP. Hackett, a WWII combat veteran of the 10th Mountain Division, was the first person to climb 5 of the Seven Summits, the first to climb both Denali and Logan, the first to climb the N Peak of Logan, a summiting member of Bradford Washburn's expedition that made the first ascent of the popular West Buttress route on Denali, leader of the 1960 USA K2 expedition, the first American to climb Aconcagua, and the first American to climb Mt Kenya. Large format photo book that may require extra postage for overseas shipment. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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From Edinburgh To The Antarctic. An Artist's Notes And Sketches During The Dundee Antarctic Expedition Of 1892-93 -- FIRST EDITION 1894
by Murdoch, W. G. Burn
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. George Marston. FIRST EDITION UK 1894. Elegantly rebound in 1/2 leather with marbled boards, matching marbled EPs, raised bands spine, untrimmed text block. The book is in nice condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (NOT ex-library), clean, minor rubbing to spine ribs and extreme tips of corners, solid binding, small foxing spots on a few preliminary and a few final pages otherwise most pages are free of foxing, complete with all pages and folding map at page 364. The book measures 230mm tall x 155mm, and has 364 pages, many b/w illustrations, large folding map, 24 pages of publisher's book advertisements dated 1894 at end starting with publisher's list of available catalogues (index on verso) followed by ads starting with Abbot's History of Greece. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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From Pekin To Calais By Land -- 1892 HARDCOVER
by De Windt, H.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1892. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. SECOND EDITION 1892. Original tan cloth, gilt lettering spine, black & red pattern decorations front cover, dark brown coated EPs. Inside hinges repaired with archival tissue tape, spine gilt mostly gone, slight age browning to pages, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, some small splitting of cloth at spine ends, no foxing, complete with all illustrations and pages. The book measures 235mm tall x 145mm, and has 365 pages, 15 plates of b/w illustrations, map. Author's trip: Pekin, Gobi Desert, Lake Baikal, Kansk, Tomsk, Tobolsk, Perm, Moscow, Vienna. The first 163 pages describe Peking and the trip through the Gobi Desert.PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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From Red Sea To Blue Nile Abyssinian Adventure - WITH Rare Dust Jacket
by Forbes, Rosita
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New York: The Macaulay Company, 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Includes rare original dust jacket. The book measures 227mm tall x 151mm, and has 386 pages, 49 b/w photos, folding map. CONDITION: The book is in nice condition with clean covers, bright gilt, very minor rubbing extreme tips corners (not through cloth, just loss of some color), tight binding, NOT ex-library, previous owner bookplate on blank FFEP otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding, clean pages. The original dust jacket has a 2cm tear upper rear, two tiny 5mm tears lower front, loss at spine ends up to 6mm deep (but no loss of text or images), price-clipped upper flap corner. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.
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