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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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