Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1994. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
224 pp. "This book encompasses the rich, broad spectrum of adventure that is mountain climbing, in a remarkable selection of first-hand accounts - most never before published - by 40 of the foremost mountaineers of.....
Columbus, Ohio: Camp and Trail, 1913. Stapled Binding.
Issues fair to good. Some wrappers nearly loose from binding, stains, tears, and chips to some volumes.
23 issues of Camp and Trail from 1910 to 1913. American weekly sporting journal. Issues include: January 22, 1910, Vol. I, No. 8; March 19.....
Kentucky: National Speleological Society, 1981. Trade Paperback.
Rear wrapper creased, wrappers lightly rubbed, lightly foxed.
176 pp. Two fold-out maps in rear pocket. A guidebook to karst and caves of Tennessee and Missouri, with emphasis on the Cumberland Plateau Escarpment Region, with guides to karst and caves of the Ozark.....
New York: Second Edition, 1999. Fagan, Jack. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. An exceptional copy.
180 pp. Includes black and white illustrations. This is the story of the Shawangunk mountains, a land of long rocky ridges and spectacular vertical cliffs, hundreds of feet high... This book was primarily written.....
New York: Footprint Press, 2000. Trade Paperback.
Edges worn, foxing.
288 pp. "This guidebook, packed with pictures and maps, will lead you on a quest. Be the first (besides the author) to bag the highest point of each county of New York Statethere are 62 to be conquered. Some are.....
New York: Grove Press, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Page ridge lightly foxed.
399 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. Author's first book, which Fox attempted to option for film adaptation in 1933, this began a series of travel biographies detailing Halliburton's adventures across the globe. Highlights include a journey.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Lacks jacket. Early reprint. Signed without inscription by author on front endpaper.
399 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. Author's first book, which Fox attempted to option for film adaptation in 1933, this began a series of travel biographies detailing Halliburton's adventures.....
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1925. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Jacket edges rubbed with some minor chips.
399 pp. Author's first book, which Fox attempted to option for film adaptation in 1933, this began a series of travel biographies detailing Halliburton's adventures across the globe. Highlights include a......
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1942. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
First printing. Laminate starting, some loss to spine head and spine base, ink number on front cover, ink name on front free endpaper verso.
viii, 272 pp. Complete and unabridged. Author's first book, which Fox attempted to option for.....
New York: Black Dome Press Corp. 2003. Trade Paperback.
Edges slightly worn.
200 pp. Illustrated hiking guide to the Shawangunk Mountains in New York State's Hudson River Valley, with trail interpretation from a forest ranger's point of view. Includes interpretation of natural history, geology, forest ecology, botany, wildlife biology, and.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Molenaar, Dee. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Related papers laid in. Rear jacket flap creased.
xii, 579 pp. The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less.....
VT: Fresh Tracks Publishing, 2014. Burakian, Eli. Second Edition. Large Hardcover.
Second edition. Signed by illustrator with inscription, "Enjoy the journey!" A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
160 pp. "Spectacular large-format hardcover photo book of "The Moose," created by a former manager of the DOC Ravine Lodge.....
New York: Anchor Books, 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. An exceptional copy.
333 pp. "When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to.....
New York: Villard, 1997. Rackliff, Randy; Karl, Anita. 8th Printing. Hard Cover.
Eighth printing. Jacket edges lightly worn.
293 pp. "When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of.....
Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2005. Schnabel, Linda; Billideau, Jenny. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Eighth printing. Ink name on bottom page ridge, highlighting.
192 pp. A wilderness guide to the canyons of the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument and of the adjoining Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. "An.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, originally published in 1959 in England as Because It Is There. Lacks jacket. Spine faintly toned.
viii, 215 pp. Lowe was part of Hunt's Everest expedition in 1953, as well as Fuch's 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
.....
New York: The John Day Company, 1955. Hard Cover.
No jacket. No publisher date (circa 1950s). Spine faintly faded, half-title page corner creased.
205 pp. With many illustrations in colour and black-and-white and maps. A history of the traversal of Mount Everest.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing. Spine creased, wear on page edges.
xi, 326 pp. Photographic illustrations. Introduction by Edwin Way Teale, foreword by David Rains Wallace. In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly.....
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1988. Soft Cover.
Light stain along edges.
Folded map. Two-sided map. Close-up of mountain and perspective within local area of Himalayan mountain range.
Seattle, Washington: Cloudcap, 1994. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket, pages faintly toned.
"45 color photos, maps. The most thorough set of Himalayan aerial photos ever published. A custom-made wide-angle camera recorded views of the Nepal Himalaya."
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. Top page ridge lightly foxed.
xiv, 384 pp. "James Jackson Putnam was an established sixty-three-year-old Boston physician and Harvard professor of neurology when he and William James traveled to Clark University to hear Sigmund Freud's.....
Middletown, DE: 2016. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Near fine.
344 pp. "Join Kyle and his little dog "Katana" as they take you along for every step of their 2,185 mile adventure hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. Confront the terrain, severe weather, injury, dangerous wildlife and questionable characters as.....
. Julie Urbanski, 2012. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Minor general wear.
249 pp. "Four years removed from her first long-distance hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, Julie, aka Stopwatch, is ready to embark on another thru-hike, this time following the white blazes of the Appalachian Trail, a 2181.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1890. Hard Cover.
Rear board and edges stained, all silver from front board decoration rubbed away.
Two books in one volume: 164; 75, [1] pp. Brown cloth, silver & gilt titles & decorations, gilt page ridges. Whymper's narrative details attempts to scale the Matterhorn and.....