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Published by Hogarth Press
ISBN 10: 0701207973ISBN 13: 9780701207977
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.64.
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Published by Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1935
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. Solid , but slightly soiled copy. A woman's life in the mountains at The Lake District, the Alps, Corsica, and the Pyreneres to name some areas. Bookplate on inside cover.
Published by Quinn Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 144740016XISBN 13: 9781447400165
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Book Print on Demand
Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand.
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Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1935
Seller: Sequoia Books, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. photo illustrations * owners name * booksellers label * covers rubbed * solid example of this mountaineering classic.
Published by Secker & Warburg,, 1965
Seller: Classic Books Of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. dj top curled and has cips in mylar, price clipped, book is clean and tight, red pencil box drawn around 1965 published date.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Second, revised edition. First published in 1935. Includes a new introduction for this revised edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Hardback boards. Tear to head of spine repaired, light stain to rear board, else a fine copy. Neate calls Mrs. Richards the "Leading British woman alpinist between the wars" and this particular book "one of the classics of mountaineering literature.".
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 1965 SECOND EDITION with 16 page new retrospective introduction by the author. Original gray boards with silver lettering spine. Nice condition with clean covers, copyright line inked-over (usual for this edition when distributed in the USA) on copyright page otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, no foxing, clean. The original dust jacket has USA publisher sticker on spine, price-clipped flap corner, a few marks rear panel, edge rubbing and tiny loss at corner tips. The book measures 223mm tall x 140mm, and has 352 pages, 37 b/w photos on 32 plates, EP map, index. Author's climbs pre-1920 to 1928 ranging from North Wales, the Lake District and Scotland to the Swiss, French, Italian and Austrian Alps, Corsica, the Pyrenees, the High Tatra, the American and Canadian Rockies, and brief mention of a trip to the foothills of Kangchenjunga. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Published by Secker and Warburg, London, 1965
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second revised edition, with new introduction and 32 pages of plates. Mild bump to head of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has to edgewear. small chips/tears at head and foot of spine. First published in 1935, this mountaineering classic describes climbes in North Wales, the Lake District, Scotland, the Alps, Pyrenees, American and Canadian Rockies, and Himalayas.
Published by G. Bell and Sons 1935, London, 1935
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. xiii, 352 pp. Green cloth. Bumping to spine ends and extremities, scuffs to boards and sunning to spine. Mostly bright and clean internally, with the occasional page that has slight discolouration to the margins and light foxing to fore-edge. Inscription of previous owner to FFEP. Includes many high quality photographic plates of mountains and climbing amongst them. 8vo.
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Minimal wear to dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. A mild tan to the page edges. Contents bright and unmarked within. A clear, firm copy overall.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Second Revised Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original grey boards (a trifle rubbed, occ. spotting, else internally clean) in dustwrapper priced 42 s. net (slightly rubbed & frayed, slight marking, tape marks on reverse); pp. xiv (last blank), 352, with 69 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate P57: The author of this classic book was a leading British climber between the wars. Her book covers climbs over twenty years around the world, chiefly in the 1920s. Her husband Ivor Richards was also a fine climber and writer, who occasionally wrote for the Alpine Journal, etc.].
Published by G.Bell & Sons, Ltd., London, 1935
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original green cloth (rubbed with a little wear at extremities, some leaf edge spotting, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xiv (last blank), 352, with 69 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate P57: The author of this classic book was a leading British climber between the wars. Her book covers climbs over twenty years around the world, chiefly in the 1920s. Her husband Ivor Richards was also a fine climber and writer, who occasionally wrote for the Alpine Journal, etc.].
Published by N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st printing stated. Binding tight; pages clean; boards show a touch of wear. Unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket shows overall wear and faint soiling; spine chipped and faded. British climber's now-classic account of Alpine mountaineering in the 1920s. Republished through the 2010s. Original editions are uncommon in jacket, in any condition. (Not to be confused with the 2016 Pilley biography of the same title, written by her great-great-nephew Dan Richards.) 352 pages + 69 photos.
Published by G Bell & Sons Ltd, London, 1935
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover Book in Publisher's original green cloth with white title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-jacket.This copy has two crossed out previous owner's names to the front pastedown and front endpaper.top edge of the half title page.Illustrated with over 65 black and white photographic plates.Maps as endpapers.Uncommon title by Dorothy Pilley Richards born in 1894 she was a prominent mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell & Rock Climbing Club, later helping found the Pinnacle Club in 1921.In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in the Alps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to educatorand Literary critic Ivor Richards.In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north west ridge of the Dent Blanche in the Swiss Alps, with Joseph Georges, Antoine Georges and her husband.The book has a little age toning to the text block edges.The binding remain firm with no hinge weakness,8vo 352pp First Edition 1st Impression [1935].
Published by G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1935, 1935
Seller: Mountaineering Books (Tony Astill), Southampton, United Kingdom
1st. Near Fine pp352. 71 illus. orig. cloth bright. owner insc. 'W.R. Neate 3/7/73'. poor pc dw.
Published by The Dearborn Independent, Dearborn, Michigan, 1926
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: Politics And The New Woman - A study of suffrage by Marian Bruce Clark, who believes it has failed; Joseph C. Lincoln Tells of his Cape Cod Years; The White Weasel - A True Indian Story; Shapes That Come And Go; Middle Age Has Vanished; Mr. Ford's Page; Editorials; Can Editors Be Bought or Influenced?; The Hectic Sport of Mountain Climbing; The Adventure of Mrs. Farbman, by Hugh Walpole; The Beaver; John Sobieski - Gallant Soldier of Fortune and American Citizen; and more. 32 pages. Chip from corner of back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to.