Search Results: Titles starting with C from Barking Mad Books

THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London, The Macmillan company, New York & London, 1905 edn., - same gorgeous cover design as 1903 1st edn., previous owner's signature on fep dated 1908, Front board bright and fine, some marks /worn/ dulling to spine, front and rear hinges weak, colour plates, London's famous novel of life in the wilds of North America - scarce - priced accordingly. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE CALL OF THE SNOWY HISPAR, Fanny Bullock & William Hunter Workman, Constable, London, 1910, 1st UK edition, 287 page hardback, rebound in grey cloth with gilt titles, no library markings, one waterstain to one of the 100+ B&W plates, two large fold-out maps in rear - near perfect, one detached. Previous owner's signature on prelims, fep missing, Account of the Workman's 1908 exploration of the Hispar and Biafo glacier areas in the Karakoram. Scarce.
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CAMP SIX - AN ACCOUNT OF THE 1933 MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, Frank Smythe, 1st Edn: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1937, original blue cloth with pin hole and signature on fep otherwise VG+, very scarce original jacket. Considered Smythe's best book and certainly the most 'readable' account of the 1933 British expedition, the 4th to attempt the North ridge - led by Hugh Ruttledge with Eric Shipton on the team. Scarce in this edition. $440 THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON, Edward Rice, Scribner's, New York, 1st US edn., 1990, 522 page VG+ hardback, VG+ jacket, B&W plates, Riveting biography of Burton The secret agent who made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and brought the Arabian Nights to the West...and much much more. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBING AND EXPLORATION IN THE KARAKORAM HIMALAYAS, William Martin Conway,T Fisher Unwin, London, 1894, 1st edition, 700 pages, original orange/brown cloth with decorations, gilt titles, profusely illustrated by expedition member AD McCormick, fold-out map of Karakoram This copy was owned by prominent NZAC member Charlie Collins, his signature on prelim with a piece missing - This was the first major attempt to explore the Karakoram. The six-man expedition ascended the Hispar Glacier,and the Biafo and the Baltoro and achieved a height record. A remarkable achievement. Unfortunately most of the photographic plates which were to be used to illustrate the book were lost. This volume is also particularly significant for Conway's narrative of the expedition's sighting of K2 and reference to the mountain by its Indian Atlas letter and number code. This code was subsequently adopted as the standard name for the world's second highest mountain.
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CLIMBING IN THE DOLOMITES - Leone SINIGAGLIA, T Fisher Unwin, 1896 1st UK edition, fold-out colour map, B&W plates and drawings, 223 page VG+ hardback with original grey-blue cloth and decoration, gilt titles, a VG+ copy of a scarce early work on this famous Italian mountain range - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBING THE FISH'S TAIL - Wilfrid Noyce, Heineman , London, 1958, 1st edn.,VG+ in original blue cloth, with VG dustjacket, Classic British Himalayan expedition that made the first ascent of Machapuchare in the Annapurna Range, Central Nepal - Hard to find, especially in this condition.
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CLIMBS AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE BOLIVIAN ANDES - Sir William Martin Conway, Harper, New York & London, 1901, 1st edition, original blue cloth, gilt titles, worn at spine ends, bumped corners, previous owner's name fep, some light pencil underlining, profusely illustrated B&W plates - a pioneering work on the Bolivian Andes during an extensive South American tour that also took him to Tierra del Fuego. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBS AND SKI RUNS, Frank Smythe, Blackwood, London, 1931, 1st edn., original pale blue cloth, facsimile of rare jacket, previous owner's names fep overall VG, minor foxing to page edges, excellent B&W plates, Mountaineering and skiing in The Alps, Great Britain and Corsica. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBS & EXPLORATIONS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES - Stutfield & Collie, Longman's Green & Co., London, 1903, 1st edn., original slate grey cloth with bright gilt titles, large fold-out map, any work by famous Himalayan climber Norman Collie is hard to find, a classic for any mountain exploration library THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

COLD, Larry Gould, Inscribed by the author in 1933 on fep., Putnam, New York, 1931, 268 page hardback, no jacket, B&W and colour plates, narrative of a dog sledge journey to Marie Byrd land from Little America - scarce signed in this way - excellent record of sledging days with huskies. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

COLLECTED VERSE OF ROBERT SERVICE, 2 volumes, Ernest Benn, London, 1960, 700 & 480 page VG+ hardbacks,in original maroon and blue cloth, no jackets, gilt titles, about as nice a set as you'll ever find...all the classic Service poems of the Yukon and wild north are there. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE CONQUEST OF MOUNT COOK - Freda Du Faur, George Allen & Unwin, London, 2nd Edn, 1936, smaller format, original tan boards - missing publisher's small plate base of spine, overall VG , internally VG+ THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE CROSSING OF ANTARCTICA, Sir Vivian Fuchs & Sir Edmund Hillary, Cassell London, 1958, 300 page hardback, VG This copy signed to title page E P Hillary, George Lowe and chief pilot John Claydon, jacket, profusely illustrated with B&W and colour plates, maps, - the story of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic expedition 1955-58. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS, George Manville Fenn, Partridge, London, 1897, new edition, 400 page hardback - a boy's adventures in the higher alps (fiction) - sl dulled/worn covers but fine illustrations, shaken - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

Catalogue of Himalayan Literature, Yoshimi Yakushi, Hakusuisha Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1984, in English and Japanese, as new with slipcase - now scarce. Yakushi has been the definitive source of Himalayan literature since 1984.
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