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There are 53 books in this catalogue.
Just for the Love of It. The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest from Both Sides
O'Dowd, Cathy
Book Number: 68118
ISBN: 0620247827
Publisher: Free to Decide Publishing 1999.
8vo. hardcover. 320pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


Dead Lucky - Life After Death on Mount Everest. Signed.
Hall, Lincoln - Forward Lachlan Murdoch
Book Number: 67464
ISBN: 9781741664614
Publisher: Random House
8vo softcover. Index. 421pp very good, some foxing, mainly to edges. Illustrated with photo's. Signed by author.
Price: $45.00


TOP CLIMBS of the World
Hattingh, Garth
Book Number: 64947
ISBN: 1859740855
Publisher: New Holland 1999
4to. hardcover. 160pp. index, colour ilus. very good. /very good d/w. Heavy book, extra post for orders outside Australia.
Price: $15.00


No Mean Feat
Inglis, Mark
Book Number: 50129
ISBN: 1869415361
Publisher: Random House January 1, 2002
8vo softcover 176pp very good. Illustrated. Tells the incredible story of Mark’s survival in the ice cave on the summit of Mount Cook in 1982 and the journey through life as a young double amputee culminating on the summit of that same mountain as the first double amputee to scale it.
Price: $8.00


Kinabalu Escape. The Soldiers' Story
Mayfield, Rich with Bob Mann
Book Number: 66652
ISBN: 0094780706
Publisher: Constable, London, 1997
8vo. softcover. 282pp. b/w illus. Good, cover and a few page corners creased.
Price: $12.00


Nanda Devi
Shipton, E. E.
Book Number: 66628
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. London: 1939.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 287pp. Good, some foxing, maps tipped-in on endpapers by previous owner. / Good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Mountain Men. An Early History of Rock Climbing in North Wales
Hankinson, Alan
Book Number: 66416
ISBN: 043586002x
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, London, 1977.
8vo. hardcover. 202pp., index, b/w illus. Very good, bookseller stamp on fep. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Rock Climbing Down Under Australia Exposed
Carter, Simon
Book Number: 66317
ISBN: 9780987087485
Publisher: Onsight Photography and Publishing, Blackheath NSW, 2014
4to. laminated boards, hardcover. 192pp. colour illus. Fine.
Price: $95.00


The Everest-Lhotse Adventure.
Eggler, Albert & Hugh Merrick
Book Number: 65788
ISBN: 
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York. n.d. (1957?)
8vo. hardcover. 222pp. b/w illus. Very good, spine sunned. / no d/w.
Price: $15.00


Scrambles Amongst the Alps. With additional illustrations and material from the author's Unpublished Diaries.
Whymper, Edward
Book Number: 63437
ISBN: 
Publisher: John Murray, London 1966.
8vo. hardcover. 414pp. index, b/w illus. 5 folding maps inside rear cover. Very good. / Good+ d/w worn at extremeties.
Price: $95.00


Scrambles Amongst the Alps. . With Additional Illustrations Material from the Author's Unpublished Diaries.
Whymper, Edward. Revised and Edited by H.E.G.Tyndale.
Book Number: 65079
ISBN: 0863501044
Publisher: Webb & Bower / Michael Joseph, London, 1986.
Small 4to. hardcover. 262pp. index, colour & b/w illus., b/w maps. Very good./ very good d/w.
Price: $28.00


Everest the Hard Way The First Ascent of the South West Face
Bonington, Chris
Book Number: 62553
ISBN: 
Publisher: Book Club London 1976
Large 8vo. hardcover. 239pp. index, colour illus. Good, fep creased. / Good, chipped d/w.
Price: $8.00


Exploring the Hidden Himalaya
Mehta, Soli; Kapadia, Harish
Book Number: 64661
ISBN: 0340504498
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990.
8vo. hardcover. 172pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Second Death of George Mallory. The Enigma and Spirit of Mount Everest. .
Messner, Reinhold
Book Number: 64662
ISBN: 
Publisher: St Martins Press, New York, 2001.
8vo hardcover 3205pp., b/w illus. several maps tipped-in by previous owner. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00


That Untravelled World: An Autobiography
Shipton, Eric
Book Number: 64668
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Travel Book Club, London, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 286pp. index, b/w illus. maps. several maps tipped-in by previous owner. / Very good d/w.
Price: $30.00


My Ascent of Mont Blanc
D'Angeville, Henriette
Book Number: 64603
ISBN: 0002157179
Publisher: Harper Collins, 1992.
8vo. hardcover. 131pp. b/w illus. Very good, 12 photocopied pages from "The Letters of Gertrude Bell" (on climbing in the alps) tipped-in on rear endpaper and pastedown. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $20.00


Lonely Hills & Wilderness Trails
Gilbert, Richard
Book Number: 64451
ISBN: 0715309226
Publisher: David & Charles, United Kingdom, 2000.
8vo. hardcover. 319pp. colour illus. Very good+, some maps tipped-in by previous owner. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Throne of the Gods: An Account of the First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas
Heim, Arnold & Gansser, August. Translated by Eden & Cedar Paul
Book Number: 64388
ISBN: 
Publisher: MacMillan London 1939.
8vo. hardcover. top edge gilt. 233pp. b/w illus. Folding panorama sketch & photo. folding map in pocket inside rear cover. Very good, Some foxing.
Price: $65.00


Cloud Walkers. Six Climbs on Major Canadian Peaks
Sherman, Paddy
Book Number: 64066
ISBN: 0770518265
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, reprint.
8vo. softcover. 161pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00


A Rockclimber's guide to the Wolgan Valley
Taylor, Pete
Book Number: 63896
ISBN: 
Publisher: Pete Taylor 1974.
12mo. softcover. 160pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $75.00


Annapurna Sanctuary and Circuit
Lyons, Alonzo L.
Book Number: 62936
ISBN: 978147748721
Publisher: no publisher, printed by Amazon UK.
8vo. softcover. 196pp. b/w maps. Very good+.
Price: $14.00


Storms of Silence
Simpson, Joe
Book Number: 62677
ISBN: 0099578115
Publisher: Vintage 1997.
8vo. softcover. 330pp. index, colour illus. Very good, page edge slightly browned.
Price: $5.00


Climbs of My Youth
Roch, Andre
Book Number: 62676
ISBN: 
Publisher: Lindsay Drummond, London, 1949.
8vo. hardcover. 159pp. b/w illus. Very good, owner's details inside cover. / Front panel of d/w (the rest is missing).
Price: $10.00


Rock Climbing Techniques
Ashton, Steve
Book Number: 62673
ISBN: 1852232285
Publisher: Crowood Press, 1988
8vo. softcover. 127pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good, crease on cover corner.
Price: $8.00


Basic Rock, Snow and Ice Climbing
Boyton, Jeff
Book Number: 62674
ISBN: 0589503375
Publisher: Reed, Frenchs Forest, 1982
8vo. softcover. 80pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, large owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $8.00


Climbing Days
Pilley, Dorothy
Book Number: 62566
ISBN: 0701207973
Publisher: Hogarth Press, London 1989.
8vo. softcover. 352pp. index. Good, page edges browned.
Price: $8.00


Lakeland Rock: Classic Climbs with Chris Bonington
Bailey, Adrian
Book Number: 29556
ISBN: 0297786385
Publisher: Weidenfeld 1985
8vo softcover 144pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $15.00


The Moated Mountain
Styles, Showell
Book Number: 28480
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hurst & Blackett. 1955 First Edition
8vo. hardcover. 249pp. b/w illus. colour frontis. very good. / good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Rakaposhi
Banks, Mike
Book Number: 28444
ISBN: 
Publisher: Secker and Warburg 1959 First Published
8vo, 238pp. Red Boards, very good in fair pictorial d/w clipped, torn & worn. Colour frontis, Illustrated with b&w photo's. Index.
Price: $20.00


Climber's Glory
Hogg, Garry
Book Number: 22275
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: The Bodley Head, 1961
Small 8vo. hardcover. 158pp. very good, owner's name on fep. / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00



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