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Robbins, Leonard H.
Mountains and Men.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931. 1st edition. 324 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Endpaper maps.
Good hardcover. #11329. $7.50
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Robinson, F. R., editor.
A Climber's Guide to Seneca Falls.
Washington, D.C.: Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, Mountaineering Section, 1971.
24mo (very small book). 122 pages. Maps. Illustrations.
Very good stiff wrappers. #18256. $75
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Schniebs, Otto Eugen.
American Skiing.
New York: Dutton, 1940. 4th printing. 232 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Folding maps. Inside front flap: 'A new 1941 edition, revised and brought
up-to-date'.
'America's foremost skiing authority is the author of this first comprehensive
and practical book devoted entirely to American techniques and terrain.'--dust
jacket. Good hardcover in poor dust jacket. #15939. $20
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Sennett, A. R.
Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the
Manners of Man.
London & Derby: Bemrose, 1904. xvi, 444, 100, index pages. 200 illustrations.
Good hardcover, embossed cover with pictorial label on front cover; edges
rubbed, library call number on spine and label removed, library bookplate
inside front cover, and some black felt-tip ink markings on flyleaf. No other
library markings, slight foxing. Text block very good, binding otherwise good.
#11453. $27.50
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Shipton, Eric.
Men against Everest.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1955. 161 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
An account of all the expeditions that attacked Mount Everest, including
Hillary & Tenzing's 1953 ascent. Very good hardcover binding in good dust
jacket top and bottom of jacket spine very slightly frayed. Name sticker on
lower right-hand corner of front flyleaf. #11478. $15
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Smythe, F. S. (Frank S.).
Behold the Mountains: Climbing with the Color Camera.
New York: Chanticleer, 1949. Folio (very large book). 155 pages. 57 color
photographs by the author.
Good hardcover; former owner's name in ink on blank front flyleaf. #11521.
$7.50
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Spencer, Sydney, editor.
Mountaineering.
London: Seeley, 1934. 383 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Folding maps.
Lonsdale Library, XVIII.
Very good hardcover binding in Very good dust jacket. #11537. $50
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Stead, Richard.
Daring Deeds of Great Mountaineers: True Stories of Adventure,
Pluck and Resource in Many Parts of the World.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1921. 259 pages. Illustrations.
Pictorial hardcover binding and pictorial spine. Good, some foxing. #11558.
$40
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Styles, Showell.
The Foundations of Climbing.
London: Paul, 1966. 142, 2 pages. Photographs. Diagrams.
Very good hardcover binding in good dust jacket. #11608. $20
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Tucker, John.
Kanchenjunga.
New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1966. 224 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #11744. $15
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Tyndall, John.
Hours of Exercise in the Alps.
New York: Appleton, 1871. 1st American edition. xii, 473 pages. 7 Plates. Neate
839.
Decorated cloth-covered hardcover binding. Spine label with title. Good, edges
slightly frayed. Some dampstains in gutters and edges of front and rear end
papers. #11758. $40
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Ullman, James Ramsey, and other
members of the expedition.
Americans on Everest: The Official Account of the Ascent Led by
Norman G. Dyrenfurth.
Foreword by Norman G. Dyrenfurth. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1964. 1st
edition. xxi, 429 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Maps. Endpaper
maps. Inscribed on half-title page 'To ..., with best wishes for a successful
Marco Polo Hunt!', signed by James Whittaker,
Very good hardcover binding in slightly torn and worn dust jacket. #11760.
$60
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Vial, A. E. Lockington.
Alpine Glaciers.
London: Batchworth Press, 1952. 4to (large book). 126 pages. Photographs.
Very good hardcover, acetate covers taped inside covers. #12412. $12.50
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Walker, J. Hubert.
Mountain Days in the Highlands and Alps.
New York: Macmillan, 1937. 1st printing. 320 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Illustrations by the author.
Contents: I-The Country of the 'Kidnapped': Mountain, Moor, and Loch; Into
Glencoe; A Mountain Walk in Appin; Aonach Eagach-A Ridge Walk; The Buachailles
of Etive-A Rock Climb; The Story of the Appin Murder. II-Across Switzerland:
Alpine Architecture; Swiss Stroll. III-Tyrol, the Best of All: Approach to the
Otztal; Round about Solden; The Wildspitze; Interlude in the Stubaital-Life in
a Tyrolean Village; Journey's End-Finail Spitze and Similaun. Good hardcover,
covers slightly soiled, inside of both front and rear covers stained (probably
from the original glue). #25085. $15
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Younghusband, Francis.
The Epic of Mount Everest.
New York: Longmans, Green; London: Edward Arnold, 1926. Reprinted. 318 pages.
Index. Photographs. Map. Frontispiece. This appears to be a 1st edition, 2d
printing.
Good hardcover binding, edges slightly rubbed, spline lightly faded. Short gift
inscription on front flyleaf. #12034. $30
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