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Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D..
Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates.
'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904.
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Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The Spectator 1904]
Taking a detour from his more typical works recounting expeditions and his various books about art history, Conway details everything about the Alps, including the joy of the snow, the beauty of the glaciers, how the mountains were made, the intimacy of the passes, and even the mood of the mountains.
Arthur David McCormick FRGS was a notable British illustrator and painter of landscapes, historical scenes, naval subjects, and genre scenes. [wiki]
REF: Neate 181, Krawczyk, 212; The Spectator 1904
Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates.
'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904.
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Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The Spectator 1904]
Taking a detour from his more typical works recounting expeditions and his various books about art history, Conway details everything about the Alps, including the joy of the snow, the beauty of the glaciers, how the mountains were made, the intimacy of the passes, and even the mood of the mountains.
Arthur David McCormick FRGS was a notable British illustrator and painter of landscapes, historical scenes, naval subjects, and genre scenes. [wiki]
REF: Neate 181, Krawczyk, 212; The Spectator 1904
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1915. Illustrated with black and white plates, some of which are mounted, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 250, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, rather weak internally, the hinge at page 176/177 very weak indeed, and some other hinges becoming so, brown cloth slightly rubbed, lower cover very slightly marked, rear corners slightly bruised. [With the stamp of Fred B. Butler on the front endpaper, and also an armorial bookplate. He had a keen sense of local history and over a span of 50 years gathered a collection of archives, manuscripts, photographs and artefacts, most of which related to Taranaki history. He wrote articles for the local newspapers from 1927 to 1947, using two nom de plumes 'Humane' and also 'Egmont'. ]. Emmeline Freda Du Faur (1882 - 1935) was an Australian mountaineer, credited as the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, After her climb to the summit of Mount Cook in 1910, she is quoted as stating: "I was…
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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. Good. 11" by 9". A. D. McCormick. A charming Edition de Luxe of this descriptive study of the Alps, beautifully illustrated throughout with bright colour plates. The first edition of this study of the Swiss Alps, signed by the publisher 'A. & C. Black', and no. 274 of 300 Edition de Luxe printed.A charming description of the region from English art critic, cartographer and mountaineer William Martin Conway, and illustrated in colour by illustrator and landscape painter Arthur David McCormick.With seventy colour plates, including frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with two small closed tears to back strip head. Bumping to board extremities, with light marks and rubbing to boards. Front and rear hinges starting, but holding firm. Contemporary inscription to front endpaper. Signed and numbered to verso of half title.…
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San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1966. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Revised edition. 155 pp, with index, photographs, maps. Near fine copy in original pictorial cloth, slight spotting to top edge. Dust jacket has a few minor chips and tears. Edwards, who spent nine years as a seasonal ranger and naturalist at Glacier, provides descriptions of numerous peaks and routes, supplemented by general and area maps and 48 pages of photographs by Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde, Cedric Wright, Bob and Ira Spring, and others.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. First edition in this format, being the first issue of the Uniform Edition. Illustrated with 24 of the author's photographs nicely reproduced on glossy double-sided plates, and with a map of the route taken over Mont Blanc. 8vo, in the original red cloth, lettered on the spine in black and in the original dustjacket. xi, 229 pp. A very pleasing copy, the text is essentially fine and very fresh, the binding strong and sturdy with very little wear but with some mottling and fading to the red dye, the jacket a bit toned on the spine and rear and with some very minor edge-rubbing but in all quite attractive and complete. FIRST PRINTING OF THE TITLE IN THE FORMAT UNIFORM WITH OTHER WORKS OF THE AUTHOR. The textblock of the Uniform Edition is somewhat larger then the original and uses a larger, bolder typeface. Smythe was one of the greatest mountaineers of his age, and was also a pioneer in mountain photography. In this book he recounts a mountaineering…
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The eastern Alps, including the Bavarian highlands, the Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, and Carinthia. Handbook for travellers
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Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1879. Fourth edition, "remodelled and augmented," 12mo, pp. xxix, [1], 406; color folding map frontispiece, 26 plates of maps and plans, including 16 double-paged and 4 folding; map back endpapers, additional text illustrations throughout; original red gilt-lettered cloth (dampstain to top upper cover edge), all edges marbled; upper hinge starting to crack, some shelf wear; previous ownership signatures (some cancelled in manuscript) on front endpaper, else interior very good and sound. Hinrichsen E45.
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Louis Trigardt's Trek Across The Drakensberg 1837 - 1838
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Capetown S.A.: The Van Riebeeck Society, 1932 Interesting Book, Apparent First, Which Describes In Detail A Trek Across The Drakensberg, Complete With One Trifold Plate, Five Maps And Some B/W Photographs. . No Dust Jacket If Issued. Some Age Toning But Quite Sound And Clean, Rated Very Good. Verso of title page contains a stamp of former owner, Hiram Blauvelt, "Bluefield" Oradell, New Jersey. He was a notable big game hunter, conservationist and philanthropist. His Wildlife Art Museum, established in 1957 in the large stables next to his house is still operating. 171 pages plus prelims.
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Great first edition review copy which includes a copy of the author's photo that appears on the back of the dust jacket. Also includes a typed announcement from the publishers. (See photos.) There's some mild fading and foxing. Dust jacket is not price clipped and is wrapped in a protective cover. Price includes shipping within the U.S.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (The Illustrated Edition)
by Krakauer, Jon
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780375502804 / 0375502807
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Granville, New York, United States
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NZ$170.22
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NY: Villard Books, 1998. First edition. Hard cover in original printed clear acetate dust jacket. Published NY: Villard Books, 1998. Square 8vo., 9 1/4" x 9 1/4", xxii+407pp., illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. Cream cloth with blue titles and cover design, color pictorial endpapers. "Now, in Into Thin Air: The Illustrated Edition, readers are given a new dimension of insight into this harrowing story with the addition of more than 250 photographs that show the people, the places, and the history, illustrating not only the ill-fated 1996 climb, but the pursuit of Everest itself. The book includes the complete text of Into Thin Air, with a new Postscript by the author, and is lavishly illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs, the majority of which were taken during the 1996 expedition by the climbers themselves." Fine in near fine dust jacket with slight crinkle at the crown. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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NZ$170.22