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Garobbio, Aurelio.
Le Grand Livre des Montagnes.
Avec la collaboration de Janine Cyrot. Introduction de Christian Bonington.
Paris: Fernand Nathan, 1976. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 232 pages. Color
and black-and-white photographs. Illustrations. Maps.
Text in French. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #23043.
$42.50
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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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Guex, Andre.
Geiger: Pilote des Glaciers. Recit recueilli par Andre Guex.
Preface the Felix Germain. Paris: Arthaud, 1961. 40e mille. 206 pages. Map.
Photographs. Inscribed and Signed by Geiger, 1966. Sempervivum, 26.
Text in French. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), edges slightly worn. #14019.
$15
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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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Harrer, Heinrich.
The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger.
Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1960. 1st
printing. 240 pages. Index. Photographs (some in color). Map.
Exlibrary. Good hardcover in Good dust jacket in library acetate cover; lacks
front flyleaf; stamp on top edge and half-title page; lacks the Folding Route
Guide to the North Face. #27774. $37.50
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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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Hohne, Ernst.
1000 Gipfel der Alpen: Wanderziele und Paradeberge.
Munchen: Westbild Verlag, 1994. 2., durchgesehen und korrigierte auflage (2d
revised and corrected edition). 4to (large book). 224 pages. Index. Color
photographs. Maps. Endpaper maps.
Climbing and hiking the peaks in the Alps. Text in German. Very good pictorial
hardcover. ISBN 3893503889. #21946. $20
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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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Irwin, William Robert, editor.
Challenge: An Anthology of the Literature of Mountaineering.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. xx, 444 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Cf. Neate, Mountaineering and its Literature, #404.
'Twenty-five first-hand accounts of mountaineering all over the world--of
scaling peaks in the Andes, the Rockies, the Pyrenees, the Himalayas, the
Alps--as they have appeared over the past century.' - Front jacket panel. Very
good hardcover binding in slightly frayed, rubbed and worn dust jacket. #27235.
$10
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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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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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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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