Search Results: the early alpine guides by clark ronald

Scribner, 1/1/1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Chip loss to head and tail of spine. Minor soiling.

Phoenix House, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. First UK Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Magenta cloth with silver lettering to spine. Contains black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Notable underlining to pages 128-138, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with mild corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine. Book has a subtle forward lean.

London, Phoenix House [1949], 1949. F. Hardcover. cloth, illustrated, bibliography, 208p. VG/None

Phoenix House, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 2.2081 cent in x 20.9898 cent in x 13.9848 cent in. 1949 First edition without jacket on red cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

Phoenix House,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, plates and map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Neate *149.

Phoenix House, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

London: Phoenix House, 1949 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 208 pp, list of b&w illustrations and maps, acknowledgments, introduction by Lord Schuster; author's preface, I. The Background to the Scene; II. The Link with the Past: Auguste Balmar; III. Two Valaisans: Andermatten and Bennen; IV. The Oberland Men; V. The Chamonix Sustem; VI. Some Chamonix Men; VII. 'Le Grand Melchior': VIII. Christian Almer: 1. The Sheperd of the Zasenberg; IX. Christian Almer: 2. 'The Unsurpassed and Unsurpassable'; X. The Italians; XI. The Specialists; XII. The Travellers; biographical notes on Amateur climbers, table of principal ascents, biblography, index. First Edition, 1949 [Neate C57]. "This is the first popular account of that almost legendary 'new race of men', the pioneer guides of the golden age of mountaineering -- the men without whom the exploits of Whymper, Mummery, Moore, Wills and many other great amateur… Read More

Phoenix House, 1949. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 8x5x0. 1949. First UK Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Magenta cloth with silver lettering to spine. Contains black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Clean pages, No previous ownership markings.

London: Phoenix House, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 208 pp. Powder blue cloth boards. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Very good with a cocked and faded spine, faded board edges, bookseller ticket on front pastedown in a very good dustwrapper with faint soiling, a few small chips and tears along the edges. A history of early alpine guides and mountain climbers.

1st Edition, Phoenix House, London, 1949 4 maps, 2 double-page; 28 plates; Introduction by Lord Schuster; Hardback: light blue cloth, title-page decorated with a drawing by Christopher Chamberlain; Well-used copy, covers dirtied, spine very worn, "St Bartholomew's Hospital Patients' Library" bookplate to front pastedown and withdrawal stamps, another owner's inscription to front free end-paper.

London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1949 VG/VG-. 8vo. original red cloth (slight flecking & sunning to cloth, internally clean) in dustwrapper (edges rubbed with minor wear to extremities, small loss at corners, a little loose fitting); pp. 308, with 27 illustrations & 4 maps. A very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. [Neate C57: Biographical sketches of the guides who led the mountaineers of the 'Golden Age'].. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG-. Illus. by Christopher Chamberlain.

Phoenix House, 1949. 1949 First Edition. hardcover. 208pp, sunning to spine and head of boards, VG in VG- dw.. Biographical sketches of the guides who led the mountaineers of the ""Golden Age"".. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Phoenix House, 1949. 1st ed VG in VG dw. biographical sketches of the early mountain guides in the Alps, who led the 'Golden Age' [Neate C57]

London: Phoenix House, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Jacket has a small loss at the top of the spne and a few other chips and short tears at the edges. Size: Octavo . Category: Mountaineering; .