bates robert richard burdsall william (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First edition, 1939. Compelling story of this expedition illustrated in black and white from photographs taken expedition members. Red cloth, map endpapers, no dustjacket. Ex-library, with spine numbers and other lettering on spine in white ink, spine a little faded, good hinges, sound text block, school library stamps on front free endpaper and half-title, "donated by" bookplate inside front cover, no patrons pocket on rear endpapers, gift notation on verso of front free endpaper, private owner red Asian style square stamp on half-title, pages a little age-toned but clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 319. Original publishers red cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat name on half title page, slight foxing in the preliminaries and two slightly distracting stamps on the title page (from a reader of the Sunday Times), otherwise very good.

First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 381 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet, about 2200 feet short of the summit." Neate 65. Very good. Original red cloth (spine faded, spots of discoloration along rear joint), gilt spine title (dull). (#8421).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. First edition. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. xvi 381pp. Red cloth in rare dust jacket. 32 pages of photographs. Fold-out temperature chart. Map endpapers. Illustrated with photographs taken by members of the expedition. First edition with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings noted. Dust jacket extensively chipped and with a ~ 8 x 8 cm piece out of the front cover of the jacket. Original price of $4.00 present on front flap. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Jill Neate B58: This expedition set the standards for American Himalayan Mountaineering; and the book is counted as one of the classics of American climbing literature. Attempted ascent of K2.

First British edition (first published in the United States the previous year). 8vo. 319 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet , about 2200 feet short of the summit." Neate 65. Very good. Original red cloth, silver-stamped spine title. (#7864).

Etat : Good. Hbk, 1st edition, 319pp, 381pp. illustr 34 b+w photo plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps, warmly INSCRIBED (1943) by William P. House on title page to fellow-mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, lacks dj, rubbed red cloth boards with black titles to the spine, spine mildly sunfaded but with no tears or fraying, now in custom acetate jacket, front hinge cracked but holding between frontispiece and tile page, altogether a very good, sound, clean copy of this mountaineering classic.