Search Results: the conquest of mount cook and by du faur freda

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Christchurch New Zealand: Capper Press, 1977. Reprint . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HARDCOVER 1977 edition. Original maroon boards with gilt lettering spine. The book is in nice condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, small bump tip of upper front cover corner clean, no foxing, tight binding, never used. The dust jacket is in nice condition with no tears, minor wear tips corners, no chips, clean. This book was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book measures 254mm tall x 185mm, and has 250 pages, 40 b/w photo plates, index, loose printed errata sheet. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Christchurch: Capper Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1977). Hardcover. Chips to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Some staining and rubbing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Facsimile reprint edition. 250, [2] pages + plates. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 245 x 175mm. .

Great Britain: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1936. Presentation inscription on fep 'to Arthur Pearson from his friends of the Canterbury Westland Branch of the New Zealand Alpine Club. 27 signatures by members of the club on the half title. Clean brown cloth cover slightly shelf faded to spine and head board edges. Once dark head edge now slightly faded. Light foxing to fore-edge. Thin bumping to bottom spine. Very faint few only foxing to a few only pages. Frontis and b&w illustrations clean and intact. Binding tight. 25cms. 250p plus publishers adverts.. Second Impression. Hb. VG/None.

London: George Allen & Unwin. Fair with no dust jacket. (1915). First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the half title leaf and frontispiece. 80mm split to cloth at tail of front joint. Binding shaken. One preliminary leaf detached and loose. Chips to blank margins of a few leaves. Moderate scattered foxing. Newspaper clipping on rear endpaper. Previous owner's pencil signature "Florence Batchelor / 1929". ; (iii)-xv, [1], 250, [2] + 48 illustrations on 39 plate leaves. Lacking the half title leaf and frontispiece. Khaki cloth boards with two leather lettering pieces on spine. Page dimensions: 262 x 174mm. Top page edges gilt. "After we had breakfasted, there being no hurry, we settled down on the rocks again. Soon a gentle snore announced that the chaperon was sleeping off his morning exertions. I lay with my hat tilted over my eyes, studying Mount Cook and weaving a fabric of dream and desire about the silvery summits. Presently I mildly suggested that Sealy had been a… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1936). Hardcover. Lacking lower of the two spine lettering pieces. Some rubbing and fading to boards.; Second printing. (The first printing was in 1915.) 250 + [3] advertisements + [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 49 illustrations on 39 plate leaves. Brown cloth boards boards. Leather lettering piece on spine (title + author). Lacking the lower leather lettering piece on spine (publisher). Page dimensions: 246 x 153mm. .

George Allen & Unwin, 1936. 1936 Second Impression. hardcover. xv, 250pp, 49 plates, original fawn cloth, some light foxing to spine, light foreedge foxing, a clean tight copy, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.. Miss Du Faur was an Australian who made many notable climbs during the years 1909-1913, in particular the first traverse of the summit ridge of Mount Cook.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1915. FIRST EDITION. Imperial octavo, brown heavy card boards, title plate to spine with gilt stamp lettering, deckled bottom and side page edges, top edge gilt, frontispiece, 250pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, moderate soiling and foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1915. Cover: original brown-mesh cloth on boards with gilt titles; faint dusting of age soiling. Light bumping to fore corners. Edges: top-edge: gilt rubbed; fore & bottom edge with foxing. Eps: touch age discolouring to ffep; and small ex- paper peel . Splitting to hinges. Frontis: b/w of Mount Cook From the Silberhorn & tissue guard. Faint few only sprinkling of foxing to a few pages margins. One illustrated page with a few tiny nics to bottom edge. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG. 251p. First Edition. Hb. VG/None.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1915. Illustrated with black and white plates, some of which are mounted, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 250, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, rather weak internally, the hinge at page 176/177 very weak indeed, and some other hinges becoming so, brown cloth slightly rubbed, lower cover very slightly marked, rear corners slightly bruised. [With the stamp of Fred B. Butler on the front endpaper, and also an armorial bookplate. He had a keen sense of local history and over a span of 50 years gathered a collection of archives, manuscripts, photographs and artefacts, most of which related to Taranaki history. He wrote articles for the local newspapers from 1927 to 1947, using two nom de plumes 'Humane' and also 'Egmont'. ]. Emmeline Freda Du Faur (1882 - 1935) was an Australian mountaineer, credited as the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, After her climb to the summit of Mount Cook in 1910, she is quoted as stating: "I was… Read More

George Allen and Unwin, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. London: George Allen & Unwin 1915, first edition. Light brown cloth in good+ condition; spine ends slightly pulled, wrinkle to cloth at top of front, crumpled cloth at base of spine at rear, lower corners bumped. American Alpine Club bookplate on front pastedown, no other library markings. Four pages at front (dedication page, preface, & contents) are cut 1/2 in. short at bottom. All 40 plates are present, as called for. No dust jacket. 7.25 x 10.75 in., 250 pp. Du Faur made the first complete traverse of the summit ridge of Mount Cook. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book; priority & international shipping will require extra postage.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1915 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition (printed with the first UK sheets = nearly identical to the first UK printing with same binding covers). Original tan buckram covers, two original leather title patches spine with gilt lettering, TEG, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom-edge as issued. Overall a better than average condition example of this book that usually suffers condition problems, especially to the title patches and page foxing. This example has clean covers, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, darkening to spine, some scuffing to leather spine patches but no loss (they frequently chip), solid binding, particularly uncommon being without foxing on pages or plates. The book measures 270mm tall x 187mm and has 250 pages +[2], 49 b/w photos, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1915 4to original brown buckram with gilt leather spine labels, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut (cloth a trifle flecked, spine a trifle tanned, occ. spots to outer leaves, else clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xv, 252 (last colophon), with 49 illustrations. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A nice copy, near fine. [Neate D53: Miss du Faur was an Australian who made many notable climbs during the years 1909-1913, in particular the first traverse of the summit ridge of Mount Cook. It is doubtful if she ever climbed again. She spent most of the rest of her life in England, but died in Australia].. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.