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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the first American edition in jacket of the second volume of this noted climbing annual. Price-clipped jacket has some wear; previous owner's ink inscription on front pastedown.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1954
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Brown cloth (hard cover), gilt titles, in mylar protected dust-jacket. 224 pages; illustrated with photographs reproduced in large format, including some gate folds. Includes accounts of the British ascent of Everest by Wilfred Noyce, the American attempt on K2 by Charles Houston, the Swiss attempt on Dhaulagiri and the German and French victories on Nanga Parbat and Nun Kun, also with accounts of mountaineering in the Artic and Africa. Clipped jacket rubbed and chipped, top of front fly clipped, else book remains clean and tight Size: Quarto.
Published by New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954, New York, 1954
Seller: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First American Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Includes "Everest Ascended" by John Hunt and "Everest 1953" by Wilfred Noyce, as well as essays on Mansalu, the Nun, Nanga Parbat, K2, etc. Includes maps, sketches, photos. Uncommon.
Published by George Allen & unwin, 1953
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Book
hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, brown cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine, splash marks to fore-edge o/w good, brief gift inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper, b&w plates - some folding, 220pp.
Published by George Allen & Unwin,, London:, 1954
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and white photographs throughout. First British edition. Very good in a very good (light damp marks along spine, rubbing) dust jacket.
Published by Swiss Foundation For Alpine Research, 1952
Seller: Star 'N Space Books, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dj Has Edgewear/Shelfwear/Rubbing, Price Intact. Jacket Cover Says Everest 1952. Jacket Spine States "The Mountain World 1953". Half Title Page States "The Mountain World 1953". The Picture On The Dj Has Everest And 3 Mountaineers, Which Agrees With Other Everest 1952 Copies. Take Your Pick. Book Has Sl. Edgewear/Shelfwear, Ex Library With Usual Marks, Stamps, Etc. But Obviously Not Checked Out Much. Middle Foldout Intact, And Multi Page Foldout Of "Panorama Khumbu-Cwm" Is Crisp In The Back Pocket. 220 Pp.
First Edition; 4to; pp. 224; 68 b/w plates, 12 maps and sketches; original cloth, chipped dustjacket, a good copy.
Published by Allen & Unwin, UK, 1953
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 220 pages. slight foxing.
Published by George Allen & Unwin, UK, 1953
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. d/j light top edge wear and edge rubbing-folding plate at rear.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Das Buch der Forscher und Bergsteiger. 216pp with black and white plates.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Das Buch der Forscher und Bergsteiger. 224pp with black and white plates. Light edgewear to dustjacket.
Published by Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (George Allen & Unwin Ltd), 1953
Seller: Le Plessis Books, LISKEARD, CORNW, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1953. This copy formerly owned by the Parachute Brigade Mountaineering Club (HQ 16 Independent Parachute Brigade Group) and inscribed thus on the l.h.s of the f.e.p. English-language publication of a series of articles published for the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. The articles include 17 of which focus on aspects of the 1952 Swiss Everest Expedition. Others include an article by Ella Maillart on a journey to the Nepalese Himalaya. 220 pages printed and bound on brown, cloth boards. Small tear to cloth on bottom of spine area, rubs to spine area of f.e.p., internal. Age-related marks to boards, creases to bottom left hand edges of final dozen or so pages, occasional fox-marks to pages and faint fox-marks to page ends. Otherwise, this book is in Good+ condition - a clean and bright copy. Fold-out, b. & w. map of Panorama of the Khumbu Glacier and surrounding peaks to rear end papers, which has one small cellotape repair and a crease to the final fold - otherwise in good condition. Many other b. & w. photos throughout. Maps and sketches from expeditions to Nepal and Greenland. Further fold-out map in article titled 'The Observations of 1952'. Highly interesting volume with much of interest to alpine historians and general readers of mountaineering. 8vo.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Schriftenreihe fur Alpinismus Expeditionen Wissenschaft. Age Gamin/Annapurna/Baffin Island. 288pp colour frontis, black and white plates. Two loose maps and two descriptive sheets to pocket on the lower paste down. Light edgewear to dustjacket.
Published by Selbstverlag 1919 bis 1937, 1919
Seller: Versandantiquariat Funke, Dresden, Germany
Book First Edition
Condition: guter Zustand. guter Zustand, geringe Gebrauchs- und Alterungsspuren: Rücken mit Resten kleiner Aufkleber - Band 1 und 2 Deckel leicht gewölbt - Papier teils etwas vergilbt, aber Seiten sauber und ordentlich - Seitenränder gelegentlich mit kleinen Blessuren - Deckelunterkante von Band 1 mit kleiner Druckstelle - Einbände teils leicht verschmutzt, teils etwas farbverblichen - Band 3 Leinen an den Rückenecken etwas durchgewetzt, Stempel statt auf Titel im Vorsatz und ein größeres Eselsohr - Band 3 mit kleinem Nummernaufkleber auf dem Titel, dafür Seiten sauber und ordentlich Sie bekommen geliefert: - Band 1: Du Col Ferret au Col de Collon (Erstausgabe 1923) - Band 2: Du Col de Collon au Col du Théodule (Erstausgabe 1922 von H. Dübi) - Band 3: Du Col du Théodule au Schwarzenberg-Weisstor et du Strahlhorn au Simplon (Erstausgabe 1919 von H. Dübi) - Band 3b: Du Strahlhorn au Simplon (2. Auflage 1937) - Band 4: Du Col du Simplon au Col de la Furka (Erstausgabe 1920) Buchreihe: Vol. 1-4 und 3b Seitenanzahl: ca. 1750 Seiten mit 339 Bildern bzw. Kartenskizzen Format: ca. 11 x 17 Leinen Französisch.
Published by London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Ten volumes, 8vo. Numerous photographic plates, partly in colour from the 62/63 volume onwards, many extending, plus several folding maps, the 56/57 volume with some superficial wear to the plates from the volume having got very slightly damp, causing the folding plates to slightly stick together. Cloth, d.w.'s, some wear to the spine ends of earlier volumes in the series, overall a very good set. A complete set.