Search Results: Alps

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Authorized Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A Very Good copy in green cloth lettered in gold, top edge gilt. Small prior price inside the front cover. Sound binding, clean/unmarked within, with little cover wear. No statement of printing, with "Authorized Edition" at the copyright page and 1898 at the title page. Not ex-library.

New York, 1892. Book. Good. Hardcover. D. Appleton 1892. Good original brown cloth hardcover. Spots of rubbing to top of cover. Binding firm. .

Batsford, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Batsford 1940, 3rd edition. VG cloth; top of spine is pulled. Unclipped dust jacket is VG- with a closed tear to front. 5.5 x 8.75 in., 120. Great black-and-white photos, many with alpinists in action.

VG blue HC

D. Appleton, 1898-01-01. Hardcover. Used;Very Good. 0x0x0. New York, 1898; blue cloth covered boards; corners, edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; previous owner's name on free front end paper; interior pages in very good condition; interior clean and unmarked; 500 pages.

Balch Brothers Co, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (green boards, gilt lettering on spine) ]show light edge wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

D. Appleton Co., 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth w/ gold title on spine. No corner / edge wears. Top edge gilt. Bookplate on pastedown. Dog ear bottom corner page 38-40..Page 36 1" margin tear. All else clean. All tight. 1898 " Authorized Edition "

The Alpine Club, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine/No dust jacket. London: The Alpine Club 2011, first edition, first printing. Near fine paperback. 8.25 x 8.25 in., 138 pp. Whymper lectured in his later years using lantern slides of drawings & photographs. The author, former archivist of the Alpine Club, has re-created one of Whymper's lectures using the lantern slides illustrating this book.

Aroleit, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Zermatt: Aroleit 1987, first English language edition. Trade paperback in VG condition; crease on back cover. 5 x 7 in., 66 pp. Facts & figures about the mountains around Zermatt in Switzerland.

Lucerne. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Lucerne, Switzerland: No publisher or date (probably 1950s). Fold-out panorama in paper covers, VG condition. 4.5 x 6.25 in. View from summit of Pilatus above Lucerne. Folds out to approx. 4.5 ft. The panorama looks like a reproduction of an early colored lithograph.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1950, first edition, first printing. VG/VG. Dust jacket is price-clipped & has mild soiling to rear. 5.75 x 8.75 in., 214 pp. Lectures on mountaineering by a past president of the Alpine Club.

Barnes & Noble, 2006. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Barnes & Noble 2006, reprint. Softbound pictorial covers in near fine condition. 8 x 10 in., 240 pp. 100s of Curtis's classic photos, beautifully reproduced.

Perry Mason Company, 1927. Softcover. Good/No dust jacket. Article in The Youth's Companion, Vol. 101, No. 26, June 30, 1927. Large tabloid-sized stapled magazine in good condition; minor spotting to front, corner bend lower front. 10.5 x 12 in., 14 pp. Washburn was 17 when he climbed Mont Blanc; he wrote a book about it (Among the Alps with Bradford) which was published later in 1927.

George C. Harrap, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. London: George C. Harrap 1962, first edition, first printing. VG-/VG. Faint rippling to bottom of last 10 pp. Price-clipped dust jacket has mild wear to top of spine. 8.25 x 10 in., 210 pp. Beautifully designed guide to treks in the Alps; each walk has a full-page photo facing the route description.

The Saturday Magazine, 1837. Softcover. Good. The Saturday Magazine, November 1837. Supplement No. 347. Four printed leaves which appear to be extracted from a larger volume. Good condition, the high-quality paper has held up very well. 7.5 x 11.5 in., 8 pp. This supplement describes the ascent & descent of Mont Blanc; this was a noteworthy climb for the day.

Seattle Mountaineers, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seattle: The Mountaineers 2002, first US edition. Fine hardback in a fine unclipped dust jacket. 6 x 9.25 in., 269 pp. Heckmair was a bold climber in the 1930s; he made the first ascent of the north face of the Eiger with Vörg, Harrer, and Kasparek. This book also relates his climb of the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses. PLEASE NOTE: Expedited domestic shipping & international shipping will require extra funds for this heavy book.

Ye Galleon Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press 1980, first thus (first published in the Whitman College Quarterly in 1913). Reddish-brown faux leather in near fine condition; no dust jacket as issued. 6.25 x 9.25 in., 87 pp. 140 pages. Gray came west with the Whitman mission in 1836; this journal recounts his journey back to New York.

Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1931, first edition, first printing. VG- blue cloth; slight fading to spine, bump to fore edge. No dust jacket. 6.5 x 9.75 in., 143 pp. Climbing essays by a past president of the Alpine Club

Seattle Mountaineers, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seattle: The Mountaineers 1980, first edition, first printing. Fine cloth hardback in a fine unclipped dust jacket. 5.5 x 8.75 in., 271 pp. Biography of one of the best inter-war climbers.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1949, 2nd edition of this reissue. Blue cloth hardback in good+ condition; mild color fade to spine & edges of covers, price written in corner of endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket is in good- condition; soiling to rear, tears to bottom at rear, small chip at head of spine, wear to spine ends. 5.75 x 8.75 in., 192 pp. Climbs in Norway, the Alps, Wales, etc.