Search Results: Mountaineering from Catron Grant Books

U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1998 322 pp with B&W photography in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue paper boards show a trace of sun-fading along edges DJ has some edge wear. Now in protective mylar.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Seattle: American Adventurers Association, 1980 Seattle: American Adventurers Association, 1980 Issue for August 1980 . Contain interview with Ansel Adams and a discussion of ice climbing. Soft Cover. Good +. Magazine.. Paperback. Good +.

Seattle: American Adventurers Association, 1979 Seattle: American Adventurers Association Issues September 1979 and August 1980. Contain interviews with Ansel Adams and Reinhold Messner on his Everest climb, also ballooning over Albuquerque, and big ice climbing. Soft Cover. Good +.. Paperback. Good +.

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhais, 1930 300 ppth 90 B&W illustrations, 25 diagrams, 2 foldout panoramas, and a large map in an attached envelope after text. Text in German. The German-Soviet Alay-Pamir Expedition (also known as the German-Russian Alay-Pamir Expedition) was undertaken in 1928 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Emergency Association of German Science. Along with the scientists, four mountaineers from the German and Austrian Alpine Club also participated. The five-month-long expedition to the Alay Valley and the Trans-Alay Range in Pamir was under the direction of Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov and the organizational leadership of Willi Rickmer Rickmers, the book's author.. he Soviet participants were responsible for mineralogy, petrography and geodetic/astronomical research, while the Germans were responsible for geology, surveying, mapping, glaciology and linguistics. About 400 photogrammetric images were taken to map the region. The Fedchenko Glacier was also measured for the… Read More

Golden, Co: The American Alpine Journal, 2007 Golden, Co: The American Alpine Journal, 2007 495 pp. with B&W photos throughout. Articles on climbing in the Himalayas, China, Patagonia, Denali and many other locations. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean and undamaged. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.. 1st Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1986 223 pp with three maps and twelve color plates. Two men offer two books in one as they interweave their separate impressions of the fascinating lives they have lived with and apart from one another. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dark blue paper boards are a little bumped at spine ends. Dust jacket is clean and bright with some fraying to spine ends and one chip missing. In protective mylar wrapper.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Elek Books, 1955 239 pp with 14 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookplate of Steve Gossett, financier and adventurer, on front endpapers. Page edges speckled. Turquoise cloth boards are clean and bright. DJ is intact with slight edgewear to spine ends. An Italian ascent of K2 in 1953 which resulted in two team members reaching the top in a first ascent of the mountain.. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Calgary, Alberta: Rocky Mountain Books, 1986 170 pp with B&W illustrations and diagrams throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged. Excellent basic information though now more precise locators are in use. 11" x 9.5" Size: 11" x 9.5". 4th Edition.. Large Format Softcover. As New.

University Press of Colorado, 1998 xiii, 208 pp with B&W photographty in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Short dedication by author on title page. DJ is bright and undamaged. #001928. Dedication By Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1974 New York: Oxford University Press, 1974 348 pp with B&W illustrtaions throughout. With a foreword by Chris Bonnington. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Blue cloth boards are clean and undamaged. DJ is bright with a little shelfwear. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Harvest/ Harcourt, Inc., 2007 384 pps. Lavishly illustrated with the author's photographs. Text and photographs are clean, tight and unmarked. The cover shows some wear but overall a good copy with a signed dedication by the author. Arlene Blum was the leader of the first all-female climbing team, and the first woman to attempt Mount Everest. This edition features a new Afterword by Blum.. Dedication By Author on Flyleaf. 1st Harvest Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Illus. by Photographs By Author. 5"x 8".

U.S.A.: International Marine Publishing Co, 1993 308 pp with B&W diagrams throughout. texty is clean, tight and unmarked. Page edges have a little schmutz. Covers are bright and intact.. Large Format Soft Cover. Very Good.

U.S.A.: Lyons Pr, 1987 viii, 136 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are clean and bright with a little shelfwear. #001927. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

London: Lorenz Books, 1999 256 pp with color illustrations on every page.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Pictorial boards and dust jacket are bright and undamaged. Very heavy book. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1986 194 pp with B&W and color illustrations and diagrams throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged. Yosemite's classic big wall-climbing era. Size: 11" x 9.5". First Edition.. Large Format Softcover. As New.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936 London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936 ix, 243 pp with 16 B&W illustrations and 4 maps in text plus maps on endpapers. Bound -in slip states that this is "Second edition with a special account of the 1936 expedition. Sir Francis Younghusband has writen for this edition an entirely new account of the1936 attempt on Evest, with a detailed discussion of the problems which the expedition had to face." Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Geen cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are scufedf and dulled but binding is sound. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Second Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Crown, 1956 New York: Crown, 1956 280 pp with 64 B&W plates plus a few diagrams in text.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Endpapers have maps of cave locations, small owner's stamp on endpapers. Beige cloth boards are clean and undamaged. In mylar jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hanover, Germany: Helwingsche Verlagebuchbandlung, 1935 Hanover, Germany: Helwingsche Verlagebuchbandlung, 1935 143 pp ith a color-tinted illustration frontis and 56 B&W plates with photography from the climb plus a separate pamphlet key to the photography, a unattached map of Nanga Parbat detailing its glaciers, and a second map of the mountain with a glasine overlay. Text in German. In 1934 Willy Merkl led a well financed German expedition to Nanga Parbat, with the full backing of the new Nazi government. Early in the expedition Alfred Drexel died, probably of high altitude pulmonary edema.The Tyrolean climbers Peter Aschenbrenner and Erwin Schneider reached an estimated height of 25,900 ft on July 6, but were forced to return because of worsening weather. On July 7 they and 14 others were trapped by a ferocious storm at 24,540 ft. During the desperate retreat that followed, three famous German mountaineers, Uli Wieland, Willi Welzenbach and Merkl himself, and six Sherpas died of exhaustion,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1971 New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1971 From accounts of british military operations in Afganistan to an intriguing digression on the meaning of rugs, Myrdal weaves together the fascinating strands of the history of Central Asia. This book is ultimately a tribute to the fierce independence of these nations and an account of their struggle against both the West and the Russians in maintaining their own cultures and destinies. Text is clean, tight and unmarked with B&W illustrations. Endpapers have owner's name and stamp. DJ is clean and bright in mylar jacket, price clipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

The Mountaineers, 1999 205 pp with color and B&W photo illustrations throughout text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and undamaged.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.