Fifty Years of Alpinism
Mountaineers Books, January 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated (2-1-99) by author on ttle page. A near fine copy of the first American edition in a near fine jacket (slight edge wear. More
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Kangchenjunga: The Untrodden Peak
Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed twice by noted mountaineer George Band on title page and beneath photo on page 100. Not signed by author. A very good copy of the first edition in a very good jacket (slight wear to edges). Band was the first to summit..... More
Tiger Slayer by Order (Digby Davies, Late Bombay Police)
E.P. Dutton & Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in original blie cloth stampe din gilt and light blue (spine faded, slight wear; a few leaves carelessly opened). PROVENANCE: With the bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson Jr., Governor of New Hampshire. More
No Latitude for Error
Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed By Author Edmund Hillary on title page. A very good first edition in a very good jacket (slight surface wear to jacket, text edges have slight spotting). There is a neat inscription on front endpaper from the headmaster of Saint Kentigern College..... More
K2: The Savage Mountain
Collins, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, with a half-page inscription on title page by expedition member Peter Schoening, whose famous 'belay' single-handedly saved his fellow team members. The inscription reads: '7-13-00 To Ward, From an admirer of your inspirational work. Here is inspiration for adventure of another sort. Best wishes..... More
Tent Life in Tigerland with which is Incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier. Being Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District
Sampson, Low, Marston, and Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy of this scarce big game-hunting classic. Complete with all 22 chromolithograph plates. Bound in the original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, black, red, white, and orange (some wear, particularly to spine tips and corners, small gouge..... More
Camping and Woodcraft:A Handbook For Vacation Campers And For Travelers In The Wilderness. Two Volumes in One
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. Early Printing. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" A later printing of the first book of its kind published in America: the primary source for the American camping and hiking in the wilderness. Two volumes in one: 405; 479pp., including indices, and b/w..... More
Downhill Skiing
Henry Holt & Co. [1936], 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Author on first blank, 2002 (no recipient's name). A good copy of this early printing (not a first) in original jacket (jacket has rubbing, nicks and some spotting; cloth darkened with wear). [12]+76+[8]pp Foreword by Hannes Schneider..... More
A practice of mountains
Seaview Books, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by both authors Lawrence on half-title and Burnaby on front endpaper 'with best wishes' (no recipient name). A near fine first edition in a near fine jacket (slight edge wear. More
Everest Diary. Based on the Personal Diary of Luke Jerstad, One of the First Five Americans to Conquer Mount Everest
Follett Publishing, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by noted mountaineers Jim Whittaker and Tom Hornbein, two of the first Americans to summit Everest. NOT signed by author. First edition, first printing (state), jacket complete with $4.95 price. A very good copy in a very good jacket (slight wear to edges..... More
No Place for Men
A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page by Sir Edmund Hillary and by Peter's wife June Mulgrew (who he credits in the work as co-author). After Peter's death in Antarctica years later, June married Hillary. NOT signed by Peter Mulgrew. A very good..... More
African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this heroic American President's African travels; contains photographs by Kermit Roosevelt (to whom the book is dedicated) and other members of the expedition, plus reproductions of drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. Original green pictorial pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, brown..... More
Everest 1933
Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed By Author on half title: 'Best wishes from Hugh Ruttledge Feb. 1938' (no recipient's name). Ruttledge was the leader of this important (but ultimately unsuccessful) expedition, which although it did not summit, set an altitude record that stood for years. The first..... More
General Zoology; Or Systematic Natural History: Pisces Vols. IV(1-2) & V(1-2)
Printed for George Kearsley by Thomas Davison, April 1803. First Edition. Leather. Four volumes of the Pisces volumes, complete. 8vo. - over 7¾' - 9¾' 632; 463pp., with 4 engraved title pages and 189 engraved plates by Charles Heath. Each volume is uniformly bound in quarter tan calf with marbled..... More
The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing
Allan Bell & Co., 1834. First Thus. Leather. 'New Edition'. Bound in later 19th-century 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, and gilt thistle and fish designs within gilt-ruled compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (binding rubbed). Engraved frontis, b/w illustrations in text. GREAT PROVENANCE: With the..... More
The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; with Love and Truth and Miscellaneous Writings
Nonesuch Press, 1929. First Thus. Leather. A fine copy in the original brown morocco stamped in gilt, spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (slightest hints of wear; lacking original slipcase). Copy #1065 of 1600 numbered copies issued for England and America. More
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