Miami: Tra Publishing, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial hardcover. 64pp. Illus. Glossary. Actually a most attractive illustrated book on the subject. Explains the various terms and mountaineering equipment. Fine, like new.
Watertown: Santway Photo-Craft Co, 1921. Soft cover. 1st printing (circa 1921 according to WorldCat). Oblong pictorial & stapled wraps, 6" x 9/1/2". (60pp). Title page attractively & rustically designed. One page introduction followed by very nice sepia toned photos. Two maps, one of eastern U. S. & the other, "Automobile.....
Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A. Scribner, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 313pp. Illust. Signed by Blum. The author "led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley (Denali) and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest." She "forged a......
Wash D. C. National Geographic, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth and boards. 239pp. Illus. Index. Former owner's sticker / address label on ffep. Fine in dj.
Associated Screen News Ltd, Montreal, ca 1950, 1950. Soft cover. Unstated printing. Oblong blue pictorial spiral bound wraps, 8 1/2" x 11". A nice item from mid-century. Near fine. ca 1950.
Banff: Altitude Pub, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial stiff glossy wraps. 207pp. Illustrated with wonderful vintage photographs of the Canadian Rockies. A historical celebration of those Rockies. Near fine.
Boston & London: Faber & Faber, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial glossy trade wraps. 176pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Presentation by Coleman, "For J____ / Keep looking into / the weird!" / (signed). A fine copy of an important book in the field by the accompllished researcher. Scarce.....
Surrey & Blaine: Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada, 2015. First Edition. Soft cover. Stated 1st printing, 2014. Pictorial glossy wraps. 174pp. Illus. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. "Following in the footsteps of many who have studied and searched for the yeti, almasty and yeren... Debenat documents their experiences and their attempts to.....
Garden City: Doubleday and Co, 1952. Hardcover. Early printing if not first U. S. edition. Cloth. 352pp. Illus. Index. Endpaper maps of the Himalayas in the front and back endpapers map of Afghanistan. Presentation signed by Douglas on half-title "For Delbert Walt L_____. Doubleday normally put "First Edition" on copyright.....
New York: Argosy: The Complete Men's Magazine, 1954. First Edition. Soft cover. Original issue. February, 1954, issue of Argosy: The Complete Man's Magazine. Good reading copy as the Contents page has been removed and the binding taped with clear tape on the outside. 96pp complete issue with exception of missing.....
Orland: Harcourt, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 342pp. Illus. Endpaper maps. (joined areas of Alaska, Yukon Terr., B. C.). Signed by Fredston on title page (not inscribed to anyone; just the author's signature). "... a thrilling, fascinating, and inspiring narrative about avalanches: their causes, their victims.....
Portland: Oregon Hist Soc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 255pp. Illus. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial endpapers. Map. Fine in pc dj that is slightly chipped.
NY: W. W. Norton, 1935. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint in cloth. 320pp. 320pp. Frontispiece. Illus. Biographical Notes. Edited and with a Preface by Francis Farquhar. Custom bookplate of former owner on recto of front free end paper (ffep). Soiled overall and stained along bottom edge of both boards, but otherwise a......
NY: Villard Books, 1997. Hardcover. 9th printing. Cloth & boards. 293pp. Illus. Selected Bibliography. Dramatis Personae. Endpaper maps. The acclaimed film, EVEREST, is based on the climb and tragedy that Krakauer first described in this important book. Fine in fine dj.
NY: St Martins Pr, 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of U. S. edition. Cloth. 169pp. Map of huge area of Asia. The author was the first person to summit Mount Everest without the use of accompanied oxygen. This book "gives us Messner's heroic and riveting efforts to solve.....
Cloister Press, Louisville, 1943, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo cloth. 78pp. Illustrated with chapter head drawings. Frontispiece portrait: "Harry Peirce Nichols in the Canadian Rockies in his eightieth year." Inscribed by Stevens on the ffep. A good, if short, biography of the well-known mountaineering Episcopal priest & pastor of.....
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 291pp. Signed (not signed to anyone) & dated in year of publication by O'Connell. Fine, like new in like new dj.
Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 1992. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 112pp. Illustrated with drawings & maps. Signed including "Best Wishes" & dated in 2000. Fine, like new.
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Lovely pictorial cloth. 309pp. Illustrated abundantly with striking b/w photos by the author & others. Brief gift inscription on ffep. An absolute classic of mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest, presented in exquisitely evocative prose by the author as he relates his own climbing.....
La Crescenta: Mountain N 'Air Books, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 225pp. Illus. Map of "Routes of 1954 and 1960 Expeditions" to Mount Everest. Outstanding memoir of a fine biologist / naturalist /explorer. Of Yeti interest. Vg.
London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing, getting a little scarce now. Cloth. 173pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. Postscript. Foreword by Eric Shipton. A near fine copy in the blue binding. The dj is poor; missing the front flap and the lower1/3 of the backstrip is torn.....
Seattle: The Washington University & State Historical Society, 1913. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing this issue. Printed wraps. Pps (163) - 224. Vol IV, No. 3. Essays: "Independence Day in the Far Northwest" by historian & collector, George Soliday, who signed this copy on the top of the front.....
Ottawa: Gov't Printing Office, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth. 459pp. Illustrated with an abundance of fine photographs. Tables. A well-written & vital resource on the splendid glaciated Canadian Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia. Hinges professionally & very nicely redone, and binding tightened perfectly to "as new" condition for.....