1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. [Herbert, E.S.] Young, Geoffrey Winthrop.

Mountain Craft. With 28 Illustrations.

First edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., no year (c.1920). 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVII, 603 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind title lettering on front board. Deckled fore and tail edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean with occasional foxing. From the library of mountaineer and solicitor E.S.Herbert, with his name to the endpaper.

5. 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]

6. 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.

7. [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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.