1. Noyce, Wilfrid.

The Springs of Adventure.

First Edition / Rare in collectable condition with vintage dustjacket. London, J.Murray, 1958. 15 x 23 cm. XII, 240 pages. Underestimated publication with numerous photographs of ascents, explorations, life during expeditions and climbs etc. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket slightly frayed only. Great gift for a mountaineer ! [Men and Discoveries Library].

2. Bicknell, Peter.

British Hills and Mountains. With 8 plates in colour and 23 illustration in black and white.

London, Collins, 1947. 8º. 47 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Britain in Pictures. The British People in Pictures.].

3. Sherman, Paddy.

Cloud Walkers. Six Climbs on Major Canadian Peaks.

London, Macmillan, 1965. 16 x 23 cm. 161 pages with Maps by John A. Hall. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. The map with some tears but now protected in a Brodart sleeve. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Tucci, Giuseppe / [Edwards, Lovett trans.].

Nepal – The Discovery of the Malla. Translated from the Italian by Lovett Edwards.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 96 pages. 60 illustrations. Map near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine. Vignette on front board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

5. Abraham, George D.

First Steps to Climbing. With 24 Special Copyright Illustrations by Messrs. G.P. Abraham, Ld., Kerswick.

London, Mills & Boon Limited, 1923. 13 cm x 18.8 cm. 126 pages. 24 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some light foxing occasionally to an otherwise clean and bright interior.

6. [Pope Pius XI] Ratti, Abate Achille.

Climbs on Alpine Peaks. [with the scarce dustjacket]. Translated By J.E.C. Eaton. With a Foreword By Douglas Freshfield and an Introduction By Rev. L.C. Casartelli.

no place (Great Britain), Burns Oates & Washbourne, no year (c.1923). 10.5 cm x 17 cm. XXX, 128 pages. Hardcover / publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and vatican seal embossed on front board. With the rare dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket faded but overall excellent with only minor wear ans some minor fraying. Interior clean and bright with sharp corners. “Servite Priory Dundee” stamp on front and rear endpapers.

7. Tilman, H.W.

Two Mountains and a River.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1949. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 232 pages. 83 illustrations on 37 plates. 6 maps, including sketch map of the mountainous region of Central Asia dominated by the Hindu Kush, Himalaya and Karakoram ranges Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bump to lower corner of front board. Signs of damp staining to foot of some pages throughout book. Interior otherwise bright and clean and sharp cornered. Summary of book on loose ephemera within book.

8. Abraham, George D.

The Complete Mountaineer. With Seventy-Five Illustrations.

Third Edition revised. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., no year (c.1923). 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 468 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean.

9. Sennett, A.R.

Across the Great Saint Bernard – The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man. With original drawings by Harold Percival and Nearly Two Hundred Illustrations

London, Bemrose and Sons, Ltd., 1904. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. XVI, 444 pages, with Appendix (100 pages). 11 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Lettering and vignette on front board. Unusually Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean.

10. Whymper, Edward.

A Guide to Zermatt and the Matterhorn. With 79 Illustrations & Maps.

Fourteenth Edition. London, John Murray, 1910. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. XIV, 224 pages. 79 illustrations. One fold-out panormic photograph of Schwarze Glacier at rear. Fold-out map at rear showing ‘The Valley of Zermatt and the Central Pennine Alps.’ Softcover – publisher’s originally illustrated wrappers. Good- condition with stronger signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Rear cover is loosened and repairs have been made to the binding with some sellotape . Binding firm and strong otherwise.

11. Wilson, Claude.

Mountaineering. With illustrations by Ellis Carr.

London, George Bell & Sons, 1893. 12 cm x 17 cm. 208 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering and pictorial on front baord. Good condition only with signs of external wear and fading. Spine and hinges are worn and faded. Binding a little shaky but holding. Interior is bright and clean. [The All- England Series]

12. Pilley, Dorothy [Mrs I.A. Richards].

Climbing Days.

London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1935. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. XIII, 352 pages. 69 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Good condition only with stronger signs of external wear and staining to boards. Boards rubbed. Wear and rubbing to spine but binding still firm and strong. Occasional spotting to otherwise clean interior. Preowner details on front endpaper. Loose emphemera within: Daily Telegraph obituary of Dorothy dated 2 October 1986.

13. Catlow, Agnes and Maria E.

Sketching Rambles or Nature in the Alps and Apennines. Illustrated by Twenty Views, from Sketches by the Authors.

Volume One (of two volumes). London, James Hogg and Sons, no year (c.1861). 14.5 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 374 pages. 10 illustrations, including colour frontispiece and 9 tinted lithographs. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Deckled edges. Good- condition with significant signs of external wear. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Soiling to front boards. Tears to valley between pastedowns and endpapers with cloth exposed. Binding still firm and strong. Dust-darkened edges. Very occasional signs of foxing only to an otherwise clean interior. Tissue guards with plates.

14. Smythe, F.S.

Over Tyrolese Hills. Photographs by the Author.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, no year (c.1937). 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 292 pages. 35 other illustrations. Fold-out map at rear showing the Tyrolese Alps. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Vignette on front board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners.

15. Gos, Charles [Barnes, Malcolm trans].

Alpine Tragedy.

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, no year (c.1948). 16 cm x 23.7 cm. X, 282 pages. 35 photographs on plates at rear. 6 maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright, clean and sharp cornered.

16. Smythe, F.S.

Kamet Conquered.

First edition. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. 15 cm x 23.5 cm Frontispiece, XVI, 420 pages. 59 additional illustrations. Fold-out trace map at rear showing route of 1920 Kamet Expedition. Hardcover [publisher’s original dark cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rubbing to board edges at top and bottom. Some light foxing to title- and halftitle pages and very occasional hints of foxing to an otherwise bright and clean interior.

17. Moore, A.W. [ E.H. Stevens Ed.].

The Alps in 1864 – A Private Journal. Edited by E.H. Stevens.

Volume II (of Two Volumes). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1939. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. XI, 524 pages.18 illustrations and Maps on pastedowns and endpapers of the Saas Grat, Turtmann and Bies Glaciers, the Moming Glacier, the Aletschhorn and the Wetterhorner. Hardcover [publisher’s original grey cloth] with lettering on spine. Small vignette on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ink stains to top edge. Interior bright and clean. Ex-libris stamps near front. [Blackwell’s Mountaineering Library]

18. Smythe, F.S.

Camp Six – An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition.

First edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 307 pages. 36 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding very firm. Interior very bright and clean.

19. Baillie-Grohman, W.A.

The Land in the Mountains – Being an Account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. Illustrated with Eighty-Two Plates and Maps of Modern Tyrol and Ancient Raetia.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1907. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXI, 288 pages. Errata leaf opposite first page of Introduction. 2 colour maps within text. 80 illustrations in addition to frontispiece. Illustrations with captioned tissueguards. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Good- condition. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lengthy cracks to gutter to between rear pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth. Binding tender. Partially loose foxed frontispiece and tissueguard. Textblock still solid. Occasional foxing throughout. Interior unmarked.

20. Dent, C.T.

Mountaineering. Illustrations by H.G Willink and others.

Second Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 439 pages. 13 illustrations on 13 plates and an additional 93 illustrations within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with lettering on spine. Pictorial and series title on front board. Deckled top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes].