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Sport : Climbing


Wanderings of A Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau Alp (A New Edition)

William Collins, Glasgow & London
8vo in 1/2 brown leather, marbled boards, x + 367pp, engraved frontispiece (Mont Blanc From Chamouni)
Close to VERY GOOD (spine rubbed and lacking spine label (but the title was embossed into the leather and is still perfectly legible), light wear to leather corner pieces, mild ink markings to front blank fly-leaves, pages tanned. The binding is very strong and the contents are otherwise clean and tight)
Hardcover
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Killing Dragons - A History of Alpine Exploration

Granta Books, London
publishers' uncorrected proof copy, large 8vo in stiff card covers, 387pp
AS NEW unread copy (pages very faintly tanned)
1st editionSoftcover
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Unjustifiable Risk? - The Story of British Climbing

Cicerone, Cumbtria
Heavy 8vo. in black faux cloth, silver lettering to spine and front cover, 388pp, plates, index etc
An almost AS NEW unread copy (few specks of tanning to tepb) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Selected Climbs in the Bernese Alps - From the Lotschenpass to the Grimselpass

Alpine Club, London
Small 8vo. in transparent plastic covered limp boards (as issued), 223pp, plates etc
A well preserved very clean and tight FINE copy (page-block edges very slightly tanned, the usual mild wrinkle to printed paper below the plastic covers)
1st editionSoftcover
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Selected Climbs in the Pennine Alps (No 2 of the Alpine Club Guide Books)

Alpine Club
Small 8vo. in plastic wallet style binding (as issued), 246pp
A well preserved near FINE copy (name on fly-leaf, tiny ink notes on contents leaves only, pages very slightly tanned)
1st editionSoftcover
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Legless But Smiling - An Autobiography (SIGNED COPY)

St Ives Printing & Publishing Co, St Ives
Heavy, large 8vo. in colour printed boards, 368pp, plates in colour and b/w, index etc. Signed by author on title-page (no other inscription)
An AS NEW un-read copy
Signed copy1st editionHardcover
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Tibet's Secret Mountain - The Triumph of Sepu Kangri (SIGNED COPY)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Large 8vo in navy faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 254pp, map, colour plates, glossary, index. Signed (with no other inscription) by Chris Bonnington on title-page
An almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy (minute crease from bumping to bottom corner tip of front cover, small flat crease to very top corner tips of 4 leaves, in a very slightly edge-creased but otherwise AS NEW Dust Jacket
Signed copy1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Mountain World 1963 / 64

George Allen & Unwin, London
4to in brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 239pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc
An extremely well preserved and very clean and tight copy FINE copy (thin sliver of sunning to bottom edge of spine, top edge of page block dusty, minute bump to rear cover corner tips) in a moderately edge-rubbed but otherwise VERY GOOD Dust Jacket (looks very presentable in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Mountain World 1964 / 65

George Allen & Unwin, London
4to in brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 215pp, maps, plates etc. Large coloured folding map in pocket at rear
An extremely well preserved FINE copy (thin sliver of sunning to bottom edge of spine, top edge of page block dusty) in a lightly edge-rubbed almost FINE Dust Jacket (few very short closed edge tears to edges, looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Living on the Edge - The Winter Ascent of Kanchenjunga

David & Charles, Newton Abbot
Large 8vo in blue faux cloth, white lettering to spine. 213pp, colour plates
Some light shelf-rub to bottom edges else FINE in FINE Dust Jacket, a very clean and tight copy in not far from new condition
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Nanga Parbat

London. Elek
1st Edition Thus 8vo 254pp, plates, bibliography, index
Spine slightly tanned with a faint vertical crease, else VERY GOOD+, an otherwise well preserved, very clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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Kanchenjunga

Elek, London
Hardback 1st Edition 224pp, plates, index
Name on fly-leaf. Faint sunning to spine and front cover, slightest of rub to spine tips and cover corner tips else near FINE, a very well preserved, very clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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The First Fifty Years of the British Mountaineering Council - A Political History

The British Mountaineering Council, Manchester
8vo, xiv +324 pp, illustrated with b/w plates
An almost AS NEW unread copy (neat inscription on front blank fly-leaf) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Climbs in the Canadian Rockies

Hodder, London
Hardback 260pp, plates, index
Spine sunned, light rub to spine ends. Top edge of page block dusty else VERY GOOD+, a well preserved very clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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The Best of Ascent - Twenty-Five Years of the Mountaineering Experience

Sierra Club, San Francisco
Crown 8vo. 384pp, plates etc
Page-block edges slightly dusty else an almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy in a slightly edge-rubbed but otherwise near FINE Dust Jacket (looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Munros - Scotland's Highest Mountains

Lomond Books, Edinburgh
of Revised Edition. Heavy 4to. 228pp, colour plates, index
Slight crease to head of spine else FINE in FINE Dust Jacket, as new. Publishers review request loosely inserted
HardcoverDustjacket
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Tibetan Tales

Hodder & Stoughton, London
Small 8vo. in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 124pp, sketch map
An almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy (inscription on front blank fly-leaf, pages faintly tanned) in a slightly tanned and faintly edge-rubbed but otherwise FINE price-clipped Dust Jacket (looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Chomolungma Sings the Blues - Travels Round Everest

Constable, London
Large 8vo in navy faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 226pp, plates, index
AS NEW unread or barely read copy in FINE+ price-clipped Dust Jacket (tiny speck of rub to top flap fold corners, looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Footsteps Through the Adirondacks - The Verplanck Colvin Story (SIGNED COPY)

North Country Books, Utica, New York
193pp, plates, bibliography, index. Signed, with no other inscription, by author on title page
NEW unread copy in a NEW price-clipped Dust Jacket
Signed copy1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Travellers in Time - Seven Epic Stories of Early Exploration

MacDonald, London
Small square 4to, 160pp, plates
An extremely well preserved and very clean and tight almost AS NEW unread copy in an almost AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Everest - From Sea to Summit (SIGNED COPY)

Australian Geographic Society, Terry Hills NSW
4to in blue faux cloth, 280pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, index etc.. Signed by author on half title leaf, no other inscription
AS NEW unread copy in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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Yes, to Dance - Essays From Outside the Stockade

Oxford Illustrated Press, Sparkford
Tall 4to in laminated boards. 196pp, photo illustrated. Perrin's second selection of essays on climbing and climbers
An AS NEW unread or barely read copy (bottom cover corner tips very slightly bumped) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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