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Hardback. 1933. With foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. xx, 307pp, 63 plates (containing 74 photographs), William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh & London, 1933. Very good copy .

Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929. Hardcover. Good + overall. Francis Sydney Smythe (1900-1949) was a British mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. 8vo, 307pp, illustrated throughout, 72 photographic plates, 1 folding panorama. Several plates loose. Original blue cloth boards with gilt titles on cover and spine. Slightly rubbed cover, spine frayed at top and bottom, interior clean. OCLC: 10255581.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1931. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Holmes, H Hoerlin & A Zurcher. 2nd ed, 1931, VG, 74 illustrations. His first and perhaps best book. In blue cloth, gilt title, blind edge tooling, corners & edges lightly worn & bumped. Spine, edges bumped, gilt title & tooling. Internally, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xx), [1], 2-307 pp, [1], 74 illustrations (B&W photographic, including 1 large folding), some light foxing to edges of titlepage and half title plus the last couple of pages,. (Neate 727). (Folio, 140*218 mm). Title continues: in the Alps, Great Britain and Corsica. With a foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Smythe, mountaineer and author, was perhaps the most popular mountain writer in English that there has ever been. Even fifty years after his death many of his twenty-five mountain books were still widely read. See ODNB.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. First printing, octavo size, 328 pp. Francis ["Frank"] Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), was a renowned moutaineer "who climbed extensively in the Alps and also made several important Himalyan expeditions, including the first ascent to Kamet" (n.b., Neate, p. 140). This was his first published work, considered by many to be among his best, and is copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs (62 pages of them, several pages with more than one photograph). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full navy blue cloth, narrow blind-debossed border on the front board, gilt lettering on the front and spine, spine additionally with gilt ruled borders, top edge stained blue, frontispiece one of the photographs; octavo size (8 5/8" by 6"), pagination: [i]-xx, [1]-307, [308, printer's statement]. ___CONDITION: Almost near fine, with clean boards, straight corners with minimal rubbing, a strong text block with solid hinges, the… Read More