Search Results: Authors starting with S from Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books

New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1952 8vo. original blue cloth, uncut (some wear to spine ends & corner tips, else clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 214 (last blank), with 17 plates & a map. A very good copy. [Neate S02: Account of the first ascent of the highest peak in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru].. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954 VG/VG. 8vo. original blue boards (lacks FFE, a trifle sunned, faint offsetting to endpapers) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slightly frayed with a little chipping at headcap); pp. 192 (last blank), with 15 plates & a map. A very good copy. [Neate S02: Account of the first ascent of the highest peak in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru].. First UK. Hard Cover. VG/VG.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954 8vo. original blue boards (spine slightly darkened; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 192 (last blank), with 15 plates & a map. A very good copy. [Neate S02: Account of the first ascent of the highest peak in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru].. First UK. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

London: Bramley Books / The National Trust, 1993 F-/F-.. 4to. original pictorial laminated boards (slightly rubbed) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed); pp. 112, with illustrations. A near fine copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. F-/F-. Illus. by Graham Rust.

London: Collins, 1947 VG+/VG. 8vo. original green pictorial boards (a trifle rubbed, prev. owner's name to front pastedown, a little spotting and offsetting to endpapers) in dustwrapper (rubbed & a little frayed); pp. 48, with illustrations. A very good copy. . Fifth Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

London: Virago Press, 1984 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked, paperstock slightly toned); pp. xvi, 9-349, [5 (pubs. advts., last blank)]. A near fine copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. F-.

London: Collins, 1941 8vo. original green pictorial boards (slightly rubbed, a few spots else internally clean; lacks spine and dustwrapper); pp. 48, with illustrations. A good copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. G/No Jacket.

London: Guild Publishing, 1987 VG+/VG. 8vo. original green boards gilt (a little rubbed, some spotting) in dustwrapper (edges rubbed); pp. 574. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1950 12mo. blue cloth gilt (sturdy ex-library cloth, usual rsms, labels etc. to outer leaves, internally unmarked); pp. 296. A good reading copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. G/No Jacket.

London: Michael Joseph, 1989 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked); pp. 250, with illustrations. A near fine copy.. Third Impression. Soft Cover. F-.

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937 8vo. tan cloth gilt (gilt emblem to upper board (possibly neat ex-library?), slightly rubbed & marked, occ. spotting, but generally clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 282, with frontispiece + illustrations. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

Kilmore: Lowden Publishing Co., 1974 F/F-. 8vo. original green boards gilt in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed); pp. viii, 96 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F/F-.

London: Macmillan, 2004 F/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt (texter mark to tail edge, denoting a remaindered copy) in dustwrapper; pp. 184, with numerous lurid illustrations. A fine copy. The Wide World was the best selling magazine for men craving adventure between the late 19th century and the swinging sixties. This anthology of articles and illustrations is a fascinating and often bizarre record of true life adventures over a era that will never be repeated. The anthology contains much of mountaineering interest, including an account of Bonatti's ascent of the Petit Dru in 1955 ('The Sheer Face of Hell'), and Dennis Robert's serialised account of Maurice Wilson's lone attempt on Everest '' I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone!'. Other ripping yarns include 'A Fight with a Leopard', 'Buried alive by a Dead Elephant', 'Out of the Lion's Jaws', 'Bandsaw Amok' (set in a Canadian timber mill'!), 'The Professor in a Bear… Read More

Melboune: Hamish Hamilton - Penguin Books, 2013 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed, Readings 'Signed by author' label); pp. [xii], 372 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. F-.

East Melbourne: The National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2010 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased); pp. 96, with illustrations. A very good copy. A guide to places of historical and cultural significance to women in central Melbourne, including self-guided walking tours.. First Edition. Soft Cover. VG.

London: Bloomsbury, 2009 F/F-. 8vo. original pictorial laminated boards in dustwrapper; pp. 628, [2 (last advts.)], with illustrations. A fine copy. The 5th in the Septimus Heap series.. First UK. Hard Cover. F/F. Illus. by Mark Zug.

Tehran, 1978 Undated, but. c. 1978. 8vo. original pictorial paper wraps (a little rubbed & nicked, slightly creased); pp. [16], with illustrations. A very good copy. An illustrated essay on this Iranian modern painter.. First Edition. Soft Cover. VG+.

London: Pan Books, 1975 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & sunned); pp. 157, [3 (pubs. advts.)]. A very good copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. VG+.

Sydney: Water Resources Commission N.S.W., 1981 VG+/VG. square 8vo. original green boards gilt (slightly rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & creased, closed tear to front panel (old tape mark on reverse), a few spots); pp. 550, with illustrations. Heavy item (2.35 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG. Illus. by R.F. Brayne.

London: Elm Tree Books, 1985 F/F. Folio. original brown cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 276, with numerous illustrations.Very heavy item (3 kg), additional postage may be required for domestic and international delivery. A fine copy.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. F/F.