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Published by The Fell and Rock Climbing Club, Lake District
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
First Edition
Card Covers. Condition: Good Contents Very Good. No Jacket. Black & White Illustrations & Maps (illustrator). First Edition. The front cover and title page is missing and the spine is worn.Please Email for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed. Soft Cover.
Published by Edward Arnold, 1909
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Ex University of California, Berkeley library book with some library markings, usual wear. No DJ. Binding is tight, text clean. Heavily scuffed covers. Binding reinforced with library tape. Cloth back spine edge frayed as are most other edges. Arnold L. Mumm (1859-1928) was a lifetime member of the Alpine Club of Canada and played a prominent role in the early explorations of the Canadian Rockies. Missing the frontis piece.
Published by Longmans Green & Co., New York, 1909
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First US Edition. New York: Longmans Green & Co., 1909. First American edition, 1909. Fair but sound ex-library copy, rebound in brown hardcover, 263 pages. Well illustrated throughout including full page black and white plates, four of them long folding plates, some tipped on smaller illustrations, two folding maps at rear. Covers heavily worn with library spine markings, front free endpaper and frontis illustration absent, pages mainly clean with some occasional finger soil, library markings to title page along with a later decorative owner name stamp, library stamp at top of first text page and in the bottom margin of a couple of text pages. Two of the folding plates and one of the maps has clear tape repairs, all are complete. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Edward Arnold., London., 1923
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume 1 only. Good plus, soiled covers and edges, foxed endpapers, clean tight contents. 8vo. viii, 391 pp. Hardcover, red cloth. gilt spine title.
Seller: Top of the World Books, LLC, Hinesburg, VT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1909 Arnold, London, 1st edition, 8vo, pp xv, 263, photogravure frontis w/ tissue guard, 23 photogravure plates w/ tissue guards, 4 folding panoramas, 47 bw photos, 2 color folding maps, top edge gilt, uncut, rebound in red leather/buckram; spine lettering faint, front cover off, rear hinge taped, W. O. Field bookplate, NY Public Library stamp on front endpaper, title page, some internal pages & maps, one map separated along fold lines, good. --------------------------------------------- Mumm was a London publisher who liked to travel and climb. He was with Freshfield in the Ruwenzori (1905) and on Longstaff s expedition to Trisul (1907). This is the account of the Trisul expedition and, although he did not reach the summit, he did bring along oxygen, the first use for high-altitude climbing. He later made the first ascent of Mumm Peak, in the Canadian Rockies, and became a member of the American Alpine Club. He is most noted for his compilation of the three-volume Alpine Club Register . This book is beautifully illustrated with the smaller photos being pasted in. A classic. Neate 179. --------------------------------------------- Field, William O. (1904 1994) A noted glaciologist, who wrote extensively on Alaskan glaciers, he worked for the American Geographical Society as head of the Department of Exploration and Research, was an AAC Honorary Member, and cofounder of the Harvard Mountaineer Club. Field studied over 200 glaciers and wrote Mountain Glaciers of the Northern Hemisphere (1975). Osgood Peak, Alberta (3063m), of which he made the first ascent in 1925, is named after him, as well as Field Glacier. --------------------------------------------- This book is from the collection of the American Alpine Club Library. Proceeds from the sale of this book go to benefit the Library. Book.
Published by LONGMANS GREEN AND CO, NY, 1909
Seller: ARD Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. PHOTOS MAPS (illustrator). FIRST AMERICAN. A VERY RARE TITLE COMPLETE WITH ALL FOLDING MAPS AND FOLD OUT PHOTOS FIRM BINDING BOUND IN BLUE WITH PERFECT GOLD LETTERING THE AUTHOR'S FIRST HAND STORY OF HIS SECOND EXPEDITION TO KASHMIR AND THE HIMALAYA EXCELLENT PHOTOS SOME APPEAR TO BE PASTED OR TIPPED IN THE MAPS ARE VERY BRIGHT WITH ONE SMALL TEAR AND ONE FOLD ADDENDUM SLIP LAID IN PREVIOUS OWNERS BOOKPLATE TISSUE GUARDS IN PLACE TEXTBLOCK IS BRIGHT WITH AREAS OF BROWNING AND SPOTTING MOSTLY ON BACKS OF PHOTOS QUITE A REMARKBLE TITLE ALL ORIGINAL AND PRIVATELY OWNED.
Published by Longmans Green & Co., New York, 1909
Seller: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp. xv, [1], 1-263. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Maps. Book protected in mylar. Ex-library with all the typical marks. Spine has been covered with black tape. Edges and corners of binding worn. Binding wise a rough copy, but collated complete with all illustrations and maps. Interior of book not soiled, no foxing. Fold out maps in rear present, but torn with separation at folds.
Published by Edward Arnold, 1909
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Edward Arnold, 1909. Octavo. Hardcover without a dust jacket. First edition. Green boards with gilt lettering. Rubbing along the edges of the boards. Mild foxing to portions of the text block. Both maps present, one with a closed tear. Overall a nice copy of this scarce title. On the upper end of good condition.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edn, Arnold, London, 1923. 8vo, viii, 391p. Slight offset browning to endpapers, else fine bright copy in original red cloth gilt, with the original glassine dustwrapper. Neate M178 'Details of all members elected including biographical details & details of their published writings. Invaluable reference source for the early members of the Alpine Club.
Seller: Top of the World Books, LLC, Hinesburg, VT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1909 Longmans Green, NY, 1st edition, 8vo, pp xv, 263, photogravure frontis w/ tissue guard, 23 photogravure plates w/ tissue guards, 4 folding panoramas, 47 bw photos, 2 color folding maps, teg, uncut, dark blue cloth; cloth spine separated from backstrip, corners rubbed, front hinge taped, AAC/William S. Ladd bookplate, good. Mumm was a London publisher who liked to travel and climb. He was with Freshfield in the Ruwenzori (1905) and on Longstaff s expedition to Trisul (1907). This is the account of the Trisul expedition and, although he did not reach the summit, he did bring along oxygen, the first use for high-altitude climbing. He later made the first ascent of Mumm Peak, in the Canadian Rockies, and became a member of the American Alpine Club. He is most noted for his compilation of the three-volume Alpine Club Register . This book is beautifully illustrated with the smaller photos being pasted in. A classic. Neate 179. Ladd, William S., MD. (1887 1949) AAC Councilor (1923-25), Vice-President (1926-28), President (1929-31), Honorary Member (1949) and member of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Alpine Club, and Club Alpin Francais (honorary). He started climbing at an early age with ascents of Mt. Hood (1904, 1905, 1911) and in the Canadian Rockies (1905). He made the first ascent of Mt. Saskatchewan, Canada, (1923, with Conrad Kain), attempted Mt. Fairweather (1926) and was a member of the first ascent team in 1931, and climbed in the Alps (1928). Ladd oversaw the participation and the founding of the Union International des Associations d Alpinism (UIAA) and gave the gift of the AAC s first clubhouse, an old fire station located on the upper East side of Manhattan. During his term the first American Alpine Journal was published (1929). This book is from the collection of the American Alpine Club Library. Proceeds from the sale of this book go to benefit the Library. Ref 24913. Book.
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1909
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. About Very Good. 25 full page plates. 2 Maps, 4 panoramas. Scarce! Ink # to spine. Front hinge tender, stain to edge 1st 20 pages.
Published by Longmans Green and Co.; London: Edward Arnold, NY, 1909
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition (from British sheets with a new title page). Large 8vo. xv, 263 pp. Plates, folding maps. Neate 553. Original gilt-stamped black cloth (cloth along top of rear joint splitting, some wear to spine ends). Still a good solid copy.
Published by Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office, London, 1909
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. xv, [1], 263pp, [1]. With a frontispiece, a further 28 plates, 36 illustrations in the text, and two folding maps. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, corners bumped. Damp-staining to front endpapers, scattered spotting. Presented by the author to the publisher, inked inscription to half-title: 'Edwadr Arnold / Feb. 1922 From A. L. M.' The first edition of British publisher and mountaineer Arnold Louis Mumm's (1859-1927) account of his expedition to the Himalaya in 1905. As the author notes in his prefatory remarks: 'In 1905 Lord Curzon who was the Viceroy of India wrote a letter to Mr. Douglas Freshfield suggesting that it was time that the exploration of Mount Everest should be undertaken by a competent party under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club, and making a most generous offer of assistance on behalf of the Indian Government. Nothing came of this at the moment, and Lord Curzon left India soon afterwards, but the letter naturally made a considerable stir in mountaineering circles; in particular it attracted the attention of Major the Hon. C. G. Bruce, of the 5th Gurkha Rifles, and thereby brought about the journey which is described in the following pages.' Size: 8vo.
Published by London Edward Arnold 1909, 1909
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition and a Rare Inscribed and Autographed Copy. Profusely illustrated with 64 illustrations and two maps. Thick 8vo, in the publisher's original dark blue cloth, ruled in blind on the upper and lower cover, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. xv, 263 pp. A very handsome and fine copy, very well preserved, some wear to the inner hinges at the joins of the pastedown and free-fly. RARE INSCRIBED COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION WORK ON EARLY MOUNTAINEERING IN THE HIMALAYAS AND MT. EVEREST. From the author s introduction: "In 1905 Lord Curzon who was the Viceroy of India wrote a letter to Mr. Douglas Freshfield suggesting that it was time that the exploration of Mount Everest should be undertaken by a competent party under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club, and making a most generous offer of assistance on behalf of the Indian Government. Nothing came of this at the moment, and Lord Curzon left India soon afterwards, but the letter naturally made a considerable stir in mountaineering circles; in particular it attracted the attention of Major the Hon. C. G. Bruce, of the 5th Gurkha Rifles, and thereby brought about the journey which is described in the following pages" (1).