The White Spider

by Harrer, Heinrich

The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts at a wall of rock that was recently enshrined in mountaineer Jon Krakauer's first work, Eiger Dreams. For a generation of American climbers, The White Spider has been a formative book--yet it has long been out-of-print in America. This edition awaits discovery by Harrer's new legion of readers.

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THE WHITE SPIDER; The Story of the North Face of the Eiger
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by Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)

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London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Corners nudged and bottom of spine bumped, but solid. Toning and previous owner's inked inscription to front free endpaper. Edgewear and cracking to dust jacket extremities. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout,… Read more about this item
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger

by Harrer, Heinrich

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The White Spider - The History of the Eiger's North Face
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First edition, first printing. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis in London, 1959. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is slightly worn at the corners with some closed tears and creasing. There are also some surface scratches. It has been price clipped. There is a small gift inscription to the front flyleaf, dated in… Read more about this item
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THE WHITE SPIDER: THE STORY OF THE NORTH FACE OF THE EIGER; Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick
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by Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)

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London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 9.25 in.x 6.25 in., pp. 240. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, and fold-out photo of The Eiger showing the route. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Light staining and sunning to edges of boards. Previous owner's bookplate to… Read more about this item
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by Heinrich Harrer

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Revised Edition 1965, Second impression 1968. Jacket price clipped, in an archival sleeve. Former owner's name in pen on the front endpaper. Bookseller's notation in pencil on the fly title page. Pages otherwise unmarked. Packed securely for shipment.
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The White Spider

by Heinrich Harrer

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Atop the North Face lies the gigantic "White Spider," a formidable formation of perpetual ice and snow. It is the configuration, not Eiger's height, that makes the mountain such an appalling challenge. "From that perpetual, fearfully steep field of frozen snow nothing but ice emerges to fill gullies, cracks, and crevices," writes Harrer, who, with three companions in… Read more about this item
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Scarce, signed by Anderl Heckmair and Heinrich Harrer on the title page. (at the time of this publication Heckmair and Harrer were the only surviving members the 1938 German/Austrian team who successfully reached the summit via the North Face in 1938 by what is known as the "1938" or "Heckmair"… Read more about this item
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The White Spider

by Harrer Heinrich

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1977
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1977. 1977 Second Impression. hardcover. 312pp, original blue cloth, new endpapers, VG+, signed on the title page by Heinrich Harrer.. The history of the Eiger's North Face, a classic title and a tremendous read.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.
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London, UK Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965. Hardcover Second Ed, Revised & Enlarged. Good+: Shows moderate use. Binding shows very slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; lower corner tips starting to rub through; eighth-inch closed tear at the head of the backstrip; former owner's name at front free endpaper. Binding remains secure; text clean. NOT a Remainder,… Read more about this item
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger

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Putnam Publishing Group, 1998. Softcover. Good. 5x1x8. This riveting account of his ascent and the history of confronting the Eiger--beginning with the first fatal attempts to conquer the north face in 1935--is a crisply written paean to the mountain where Harrer first earned recognition as a world-class climber. A simple narrative style brings to life the many obstacles… Read more about this item
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The White Spider [Paperback] Harrer, Heinrich
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The white spider: The story of the north face of the Eiger

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The White Spider: An Account of the First Ascent of the Eiger
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The White Spider: An Account of the First Ascent of the Eiger

by HARRER, Heinrich

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NY: Limited Editions Club,, 1/1/1996. Hardcover. New. Signed. 4to. Limited edition of 300 of which this is No. 136. Signed by author and climber of the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, Heinrich Harrer on colophon page. Bound in publishers quarter grey leather. Grey cloth boards. Imitation stonework ornament on front board. Fine binding and… Read more about this item
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The White Spider

by Harrer Heinrich

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1965
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965. 1965 Revised Edition. hardcover. 240pp, original blue cloth, new endpapers, slight wear to base of spine, VG in VG dw, signed on the title page by Heinrich Harrer.. The history of the Eiger's North Face, a classic title and a tremendous read.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully… Read more about this item
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