Search Results: Mountaineering from Polar Books

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st Edition; xx, 300 pages, illustrated 48 b/w, 8 colour photos, line drawings. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, small repaired splits to nibbled dust jacket. Previous owners signature poorly removed from verso front cover and crease to front end paper, contents clean. Classic account of how Everest was finally climbed after 35 years of endeavour. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3023. .

Readers Union, London, 1937. Early Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Readers Union 1937 Edition: 235 pages, illustrated, b/w photo, maps. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers grubby, splitting, minor spotting to end papers, owners signature dated 1937 on half title otherwise contents clean. The account of the first successful climb of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, then the highest mountain conquered by the author and Odell. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; India; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3086. .

Penguin Books, UK, 1973. Early Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1973 Penguin Books Edition: 410 pages, publishers adverts, illustrated, colour photos, diagrams. Ex Miles Mosley library, his signature on front end paper. pages age toned, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. ISBN: 0140035028. ISBN/EAN: 9780140035025. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3476. . 9780140035025

Britain in Pictures, William Collins,, 1942. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 48 pages, illustrated, 8 colour plates, 24 b/w illustrations. Brown cloth covers with ice axe and rope decoration to front cover, titling to spine, no dust jacket, shelf wear, some minor spotting, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; India; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3076. .

W & R Chambers Limited, Edinburgh, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. xxii, 160 pages, original red cloth covers, front end paper, diagrams, maps. Very good classic guide. Spine and top of cover sunned, pencil signature (M V Mosley) on front end paper. Contents clean. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3458. .

Titus Wilson & Son Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition; [11]159 pages, illustrated 12 b/w plates, original covers in unclipped illustrated dust jacket. [Neate T22: Climbing memoirs of a noted British alpinist between the wars. Written as a tribute to her guide, and published posthumously by her friends]. As New, appears unread. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3022. .

J. Susse, Paris, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 1st Edition: SIGNED by the author 1948. 202 pages [1], illustrated with b/w photos, maps, sketches, diagrams in text. French Text. Covers grubby, small split to spine. Pages tanned, contents clean. Title translates: CUSTOMS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE WHITE TRAIL. Paul-Emile Victor, 1907 - 1995. French polar explorer, scientist, and ethnologist, founder of French polar expeditions. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3454. .

Scottish Mountaineering Club, Edinburgh, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 156 pages, illustrated 14 diagrams of various climbs, original covers, no dust jacket. Covers grubby, faded. Contents clean. A guide to the climbs on Ben Nevis. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3449. .

Constable, London, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. 1st Edition: 218 pages, illustrated b/w maps and diagrams. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Miles V Mosley on front end paper. The techniques described are as relevant today as they were then. A good read for any mountaineer. Provenance: Miles Mosley (1946-1980), who worked for BAS as a GA at Stonington Island 1970-1973 and Base Commander at Halley Bay Antarctica 1977-1980. Mosley died in a tragic accident at Halley in 1980, when he was struck by an aircraft as it made an overpass of the landing area. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Mountaineering. ISBN: 0094582009. ISBN/EAN: 9780094582002. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3496. . 9780094582002

Victor Gollancz, London, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 1st Edition, 1st printing. 464 pages, illustrated over b/w 40 photo plates. Original covers in RARE dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket tatty with splits, repaired tears and pieces missing. Covers sunned where dust jacket missing and split to top of spine. Contents clean with only minor spotting to prelims and page edges, a nice copy. 1st edition of this personal account by the author of the attempt to climb Kangchenjunga (28,156 feet) and the successful ascent of the Jonsong Peak (24,344 feet) in 1930. Smythe was not only a superb mountaineer but was also an excellent writer, making his making his many books on mountaineering the best for reading. On the Kangchenjunga Expedition Smythe was one of three representing Great Britain of a party made up of British, Swiss, German, and Austrian climbers. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration.… Read More

John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xviii, 405 pages, (2 pages publishers adverts), illustrated, coloured frontispiece, 29 plates, 17 diagrams, 6 maps. Shelf wear, spine sunned, some minor spotting, mainly to pages edges. Newspaper cutting laid in. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3455. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Max Parrish, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 128 pages, illustrated b/w photos. Ex Libri, bookplates and library markings crudely erased, previous owners signature front end paper.Covers badly worn, missing part of spine, faded. Book of winter sports and climbing. The Cresta run, profile of John Hunt, Wynford Vaughn Thomas,1956 Olympic Winter Games, skating, rock climbing and skiing plus the "Dilema of Rum Doodle". A good read. Reading copy quality. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Sports & Pastimes. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3479. .

Constable, London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xiv, 250 pages,illustrated with maps and b/w photos, map end papers. No dust jacket, contents clean. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Mountaineering. ISBN: 0094602700. ISBN/EAN: 9780094602700. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3474. . 9780094602700

Constable & Company Ltd.,, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xiv, 242 pages, illustrated. Previous owners signature to front end paper (M V Mosley), contents clean. Shelf wear. This guide is a collection of the two hundred climbs in Snowdonia and beyond. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Climbing; Exploration. ISBN: 0094561400. ISBN/EAN: 9780094561403. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3483. . 9780094561403

The Mountaineering Association, London, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 142 pages, illustrated 31 photos 23 diagrams. Ex Miles Mosley library, his signature to front end paper. Original covers, no dust jacket. Contents clean This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3478. .

The Alpine Club, Edinburgh, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 2 Volumes, Volume I From the Col de la Seigne to the Col de Geant. 241 pages [4 blank pages for notes] illustrated with diagrams and maps. Volume II From the Col de Geant to the Petit Col Ferret and Fenetre d'Arpette, 185 pages, illustrated with diagrams and maps. Original plasticised soft covers, hinges Vol I splitting, end pages grubby, Volume 2 end papers fine. Both volumes some damp staining and browning to some page edgesand odd neat annotation on page margins but overall a very good condition set. A pocket sized, soft cover guidebook to Alpine climbing routes in the area of Mont Blanc. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3457. .

Alpine Club & Alpine Climbing Group, UK, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition: Translated and adapted from the Guide des Alps Valaisannes. 70 Selected Routes in the Pennine Alps plus huts, mountain hotels etc & general information. Dent Blanche / Matterhorn peaks, (Weisshorn ,Monte Rosa) Passes etc., illustrated with path diagrams, original publisher's protective covers, odd neat pencil annotation in margins. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3471. .

Collins, London, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. 1st Edition. New Naturalist Series no.13, 469 pages, illustrated, 56 colour photos by John Markham and others. 48 b/w photos, 6 maps, 26 diagrams. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, some spotting to dust jacket, prelims and page edges spotted. Contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3460. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: ppxiv, 308 pages, illustrated, 36 b/w plates including frontispiece. Original covers, no dust jacket. Nice gift dedication dated 1937 on front end paper and booksellers discrete stamp, otherwise contents clean. Minor spotting to page edges. [Neate S131: Reminiscences of the mountains and climbing in all their aspects, drawn from his own experiences, and illustrating his romantic, mystical approach to climbing] This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3459. .

The English Universities Press Ltd, London, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 192 pages, illustrated b/w photos, line drawings drawn by Erik Thorn. No dust jacket This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Sports & Pastimes. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3472. .