Girdlestone a g (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

First edition, first printing. Very good pamphlet with some foxing.

First edition, first printing. Near fine pamphlet signed by the author to the front cover and with additional material laid in.

First edition, first printing. Good pamphlet signed by the author with wear to the spine. Additional material laid in.

First edition, first printing. Near fine pamphlet signed by the author to the front cover and with additional material laid in.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. First edition, 1870. Nicely rebound copy lacking frontis plate but including the two folding maps. Blue buckram cloth with gilt spine lettering, x, 181p, [2] publisher ads. Externally very good with no visible wear, good hinges (replaced when rebound), text block sound, likely ex-library with a four digit number neatly written on the verso of the title page, no other library markings, brief gift notation at upper corner of front free endpaper, decorative name stamp on title page, pages otherwise clean (a handful of light margin smudges) and unmarked. The maps have age-toning and extra creases; the Central Alps map has a long white paper tape repair (appears professional) to verso and an additional one inch unrepaired closed tear, no paper loss; the Western Alps map has a three inch unrepaired closed tear near the stem, also no paper loss. This book is from a collection of alpine and mountaineering books owned by Jeffery and Beverly Parrette who traveled the world climbing challenging peaks and often presented the books to one another as gifts. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 181, [2, ads.]; wood-eng. frontis. by Edward Whymper, 2 folding maps; bookplate removed from front pastedown, minor spotting, else very good in the original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt. The Matterhorn accident of 1865, in which Edward Whymper saw four member of his party fall to their deaths, sent a shock wave through the mountaineering community. Although not himself a particularly competent climber, Girdlestone advocated climbing without guides - the majority of the episodes narrated in his High Alps were made without them. The publication of High Alps for this reason brought Girdlestone some renown amongst climbers. Few copies of the book were issued - according to Neate not more than 100 copies.…

First Edition, of no more than 100 copies. Octavo, pp., vii, [3] of contents, 181, [1] blank. Lacks the two folding maps of the Central & Western Alps, but extra-illustrated with eleven tipped-in maps from Baedecker's Switzerland. Later crushed red half calf, over marbled paper boards, titles gilt to green leather spine label, edges speckled red. Bookplate of Herbert Porrit Cain (1908-1927), President of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club (1925-27), to front paste-down, maps annotated in red ink by the former owner. Leather rubbed, joints a little worn, spine sunned. Edges of book block toned but contents clean and rather bright. A very good copy. A solid copy of a scarce work by an 'enthusiastic but inept' Alpinist. An annotated, extra-illustrated working copy from the library of a notable and considerably more adept climber. Neate, 'Mountaineering Literature', G30.…