Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Expeditions to Nowhere

Sherman, Paddy · 1981

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Seattle, Washington, The Mountaineers of Seattle, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine, readable, accessible, exciting account of high montane ascents in Peru, Argentina and on the African continent. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little...

Himalaya Shuttlecock

Kopp, Hans; H.C. Stevens, translator · 1957

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1957. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, tightly bound hardcover, lightly toned interior, gift inscription at first free endpaper, minimal rubbing to extremities, light bumping to the spine and foot of the light blue clo...

The Butcher: The Ascent of Yerupaja

Sack, John · 1952

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Rinehart & Co, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. A total of 17 plates and a map. a fine and readable account of the first ascent of the highest peak i...

Mountain Paths

Tyndale, H.E.G. · 1948

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in blue cloth, with sunning along edges, and sunned to brown on spine. First Edition. Short octa...

Everest the Challenge

Younghusband, Francis · 1949

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Thomas Nelson, 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Sans dust jacket. Bumping to spine head and foot. Still sharp gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. Vol...

Roof of the World: Man's First Flight over Everest

Douglas-Hamilton, James · 1983

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Mainstream Publishing Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Plentiful rare and unique black-and-white photographs makes this a particularly compelling volume of voyage and discover, exploration and reportage. Fine-looking, str...

Explorations of Antarctica: The Last Unspoilt Continent

Fogg, G. E. and Smith, David · 1990

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Cassell Illustrated, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Big, tall Imperial octavo format, bound in blue cloth over boards, light sunning along top ed...

An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

Larson, Edward J. · 2011

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Larson's new account ...

Everest: The Testing Place

West, John · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in a two-tone blue paper over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distin...

Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica

Griffiths, Tom · 2007

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, being a superior exemplar thereof, in gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket,...

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Wheeler, Sara · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York , Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. According to the subject of this fine biogr...

The Everest Years: A Climber's Life

Bonington, Chris · 1986

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. A fine autobiography by one of England's greatest alpinists, he being called "the David...

Francis Younghusband: Explorer and Mystic

Seaver, George · 1952

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, John Murray, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, rubbed. Slight waviness of endpapers, dissipati...

Peaks and Valleys

Smythe, F.S. · 1939

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1939. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. F.S. (Francis Sydney) Smythe (1900-1949) packed a lot into a short life and wrote popular accounts of his solo and co-alpinist ascents. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover ...

Footloose in the Himalaya

Harding, Mike · 1989

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, Michael Joseph, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. A lovely gift for perhaps an intrepid traveler, a young, would-be alpinist in the making. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright a...

The Alps in 1864: A Private Journal, Volume I, Volume II

Moore, A.W.; E.H. Stevens, ed. · 1939

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Oxford, England, Basil Blackwell, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, complete in two volumes and in First Edition states, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in a light gray ...

South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953

Noyce, Wilfrid · 1954

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Illustrated paper dust wrapper present, fully intact, price intact, but with some w...

Antarctica

Paccalet, Yves · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Paris, Flammarion, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Big, tall, oblong quarto format, and replete with stunning black-and-white and full-col...

The Hidden Himalayas

Dunham, Carroll · 1987

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Abbeville Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Blind-stamped title and author's and photographer's name to front co...

On Snow and Rock

Rebuffat, Gaston · 1967

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, Kaye & Ward, 1967. Third Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Impression of the English translation of the true First Edition. A magnificent, almost how-to manual from a distinguished French alpinist, augmented with many score black-and-white an...