Mountaineering from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, blue cloth boldly lettered in gold, in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. 126 pages. Photographs [71 in full color and 8 in black and white, plus 6 maps] and text by Yoshikaza Shirakawa. Preface by Arnold Toynbee. … Read more about this item

Seattle: Mountaineers, 1985. Trade paperback. 352 pages. Index. Introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Fifth edition. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A square, clean, unmarked copy. Very good+.. Fifth Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover, cloth without dust-jacket. 258pp., Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. Foreword by T. Howard Somervill. First edition. Ex-libris, with card pocket inside rear cover, no other marks. Piece of dust-jacket flap, containing blurb, neatly pasted-down inside front cover. A synopsis of previous attempts to conquer Everest, and also… Read more about this item

Londion: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. Hardcover, green cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 318pp., Index. Illustrated with 16 full page color photographs and 2 maps [one fold-out]. First printing in the Uniform Edition of the Works of Frank S. Smythe. Rather lenghty inscription mostly erased on front free end paper. Dust-jacket age soiled, dulled, but complete. … Read more about this item

New York: Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc./Thunder Mouth Press, 1999. Large trade paperback with french flaps. 321pp., Bibliography. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. An anthology of some of the best mountain and climbing writing. A solid, tight, clean copy. Near very good.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo… Read more about this item

Londion: The Travel Book Club, 1942. Cloth. Reprint. First of this edition by the Travel Book Club. published under wartime conditions on cheap paper. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Profi les ten peaks: Snowden, Ben Nevis, Mount Cook, The Matterhorn, Ushba, Mont Blanc, Mount Logan, Nanga Parbat, Kangchenjunga, and Mount Everest. Spine sunned and paper just begiining to brown at… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1945. Black cloth sans dustjacket. Pictorial endpapers. Good+ reading copy.. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930 Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Dark blue cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs. The authors' apologia on why he climbs mountains. A tightly bound, internally c lean copy with faded and dusty cloth that has large white paint spot on rear board. Near good.. Cloth. Fair/No… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934. Black cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with numerous photographs by author. Top of backstrip chipped with loss to several letters of title. General shelfwear to cloth, else a clean, sound near very good copy. Three old photographs laid in of the Island of Java, with notations on verso describing what they are… Read more about this item