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Gilbert, Richard.
Mountaineering for All.
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1981. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book).
136 pages. Index. Photographs. Diagrams. Endpaper photographs.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0713433507. #23057.
$25
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Hagen, Toni, Gunter-Oskar
Dyhrenfurth, Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, and Erwin Schneider.
Mount Everest: Formation, Population and Exploration of the
Everest Region.
Translated by E. Noel Bowman. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. xiv, 195
pages. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Front end-paper map of the Khumbu
region. Folding map the Mount Everest Area in rear pocket. First published as
Mount Everest--Aufbau, Erforschung und Bevolkerung des Everest-Gebietes,
Zurich, by Orell Fussli Verlag, 1959.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn, stained and torn dust jacket. Slight
water stain to bottom edges of covers and rear blank endpaper, not affecting
text. #20871. $45
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Harrison, Frederic.
My Alpine Jubilee, 1851-1907.
London: Smith, Elder, 1908. 141 pages. Portrait.
Good hardcover, edges slightly worn. #12903. $45
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Hogg, Garry.
Deep Down: Great Achievements in Pot-holing.
London: Hutchinson, 1961. 1st printing. 52 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs.
Exploring European cave systems or caving. Very good hardcover in slightly worn
dust jacket. #21938. $15
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Holzel, Tom, and Audrey Salkeld.
First on Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine.
New York: Holt, 1986. 1st American edition. 322 pages. Photographs.
Fine hardcover binding in fine dust jacket. ISBN 0805003037. #14265.
$5
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Hunt, John.
The Conquest of Everest.
With a Chapter on the Final Assault by Sir Edmund Hillary. Foreword by H.R.H.
The Duke of Edinburgh. New York: Dutton, 1954. 1st edition, 2d printing. xx,
300 pages. Index. Illustrations. Color and black-and-white photographs. Maps.
Originally published in England as The Ascent of Everest.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn, rubbed, torn and repaired dust jacket.
#14310. $12.50
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Lambert, Raymond, and Claude Kogan.
White Fury: Gaurisankar and Cho Oyu.
Translated from the French by Showell Styles. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1956.
1st English edition. 176 pages. Maps. Photographs. First published by Editions
France-Empire, 1955.
Very good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #14470. $25
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Lukan, Karl, editor.
The Alps and Alpinism.
Translated by Hugh Merrick. Introduction by Christian Bonington. New York:
Coward-McCann, 1968. 1st American edition. Square 4to (large book). 184 pages.
240 Illustrations. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. #14582. $10
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Messner, Reinhold.
The Challenge.
Translated by Noel Bowman and Audrey Salkeld. London: Kaye & Ward & New York:
Oxford University Press, 1977. 1st edition. 205 pages. Maps. Photographs.
Alternate ISBN 0718211596.
Very good hardcover binding in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 019519974X.
#15219. $12.50
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Moore, Terris.
Mt. McKinley: The Pioneer Climbs.
College, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1967. 202 pages. Maps (folding
map). Photographs. Endpaper photographs.
Good hardcover binding in Good dust jacket. #12238. $7.50
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Mountain World.
Mountain World, 1954.
Chief Editor Marcel Kurz. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Small 4to
(medium-large book). 224 pages. Photographs. Maps. Published for the Swiss
Foundation for Alpine Research. Translated from German and French.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #11060. $7.50
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Mountain World.
Mountain World, 1958/59.
English version edited by Malcolm Barnes. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1958-1959. Small 4to (medium-large book). 208 pages. Photographs. Maps.
Published for the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. Translated from German
and French.
Very good hardcover. #14718. $12.50
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Mountain World.
Mountain World, 1960/61.
English version edited by Malcolm Barnes. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1960-1961.
Small 4to (medium-large book). 262 pages. Photographs. Maps. Folding Mt.
McKinley map in rear pocket. Published for the Swiss Foundation for Alpine
Research. Translated from German and French.
Very good hardcover. #14719. $7
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Mountain World.
Mountain World, 1966/67.
English version edited by Malcolm Barnes. London: George Allen and Unwin &
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1966-1967. Small 4to (medium-large book). 228 pages.
Photographs. Maps. Published for the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research.
Translated from German and French.
Very good hardcover binding in very good dust jacket. #14720. $15
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Mudge, John T. B.
The White Mountains: Names, Places & Legends. A Guide and
History.
Foreword by Hon. James C. Cleveland. Etna, New Hampshire: Durand Press, 1995.
2d edition. 12mo (small book). xxxiii, 185 pages. Bibliography. Photographs and
illustrations, including two in color. Signed by the author.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0963356062. #26029.
$20
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Muir, John.
Discovering Yosemite. Historic Photographs by Pioneer
Photographers. Descriptions by John Muir.
New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. 12mo (small pamphlet). Accordion
folded-out of 8 panels with text or pictures on both sides. Eakins Pocket
Album, 4.
Good stiff board. #23232. $15
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Muller, Edwin, Jr.
They Climbed the Alps.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. 1st American edition. 215, [2]
pages. Bibliography. Photographs.
Good hardcover. #11070. $10
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Nott, David.
Angels Four.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-hall, 1972. 1st printing. Narrow 8vo.
191 pages. Color photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper illustrations. Dated,
inscribed and signed by the author.
The first ascent of the face of Angels Falls, the highest waterfall in the
world, deep in the southeastern Venezuelan jungles, in 1971. Good hardcover in
frayed, chipped and slightly torn dust jacket. ISBN 0130367982. #25607.
$25
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